A review by sujuv
Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells by Pico Iyer

4.0

A lovely meditation on time, place, aging and the seasons of life (and nature). I remember reading Pico Iyer's Video Night in Kathmandu years ago and the excitement of it was part of what gave me a lifelong travel bug. This book turns that around and truly appreciates being in one place and finding the place that fits you and where you fit and that it's not always what you expect. Anglo Indian Iyer finds it in Japan with an unconventional Japanese wife and a lot of old, Japanese people, even as he spends large chunks of the year in Southern California with his own aging mother. A quick, warm, pleasing read about the autumn of life.