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How Losing Everything In A Wildfire Led Pico Iyer To Seek Silence

How Losing Everything In A Wildfire Led Pico Iyer To Seek Silence

Update: 2025-01-15
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In 1990, writer Pico Iyer watched as a wildfire destroyed his mother's Santa Barbara home, where he also lived. In Aflame, he recounts the devastation of the fire — and the peace he found living in a Benedictine monastery.

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How Losing Everything In A Wildfire Led Pico Iyer To Seek Silence

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