AUTUMN LIGHT

From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving medit ation on impermanence, mortality, and grief.For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, have a small home. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expe cted, Iyer begins to grapple with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love, even though we know t hat we a...[Read more]