Rough Magic by Lara Prior-Palmer

A fierce, lyrical memoir chronicling a young woman's audacious decision to enter the world’s longest horse race, a thousand-mile Mongolian endurance run, where inadequate preparation, brutal terrain and extreme weather force raw survival and an urgent, intimate bond with the horses she rides. Through wild landscapes, rough encounters with fellow riders and local herders, and episodes of injury, hallucination and reckoning, the journey becomes a crucible that strips away romanticism and reveals depths of resilience, loneliness and fierce self-discovery. The narrative blends humor, brutality and tenderness to probe the limits of risk, the nature of freedom and the strange, sustaining solace of animals.

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