“Pardis Mahdavi is a writer, coach, and keynote speaker. She has published seven non-fiction books and two edited volumes.
Her shorter work has appeared in, among others, Time, Ms. Magazine, Huffington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. She is currently working on her debut novel, Bad Trip Good, a grounded but soulful ride through the trippy world of sex, psychedelics, and consciousness (OR do I say ‘superconscious’ or ‘expanded consciousness’?) with three spiritual gangsters seeking to escape a world in turmoil.”
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Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of, Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family
“Riding is a compelling story about failure, feminism, and freedom, mixed with tantalizing glimpses of an Iran that Americans never see. It is a fast, exhilarating read, like a good gallop!”
Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of A Woven World