Pico Iyer's Wide-Awake Silence

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Pico Iyer's Wide-Awake Silence

Pico Iyer’s Aflame: Learning from Silence opens with a scene that is becoming all too familiar: the loss of his home and all his worldly possessions to wildfire. He goes on to describe the death of his father, his mother’s rapidly failing health, and the cancer diagnosis of his daughter. With this abundant calamity you might expect the book to be about suffering, but instead it dwells on the sometimes simple, sometimes profound joys that can be …