Learning from Silence," a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family ... conflagration turned his life upside down, Iyer returned to Southern California to share how it transformed his life ...

(RNS) — Pico Iyer is no stranger to the disaster now visiting residents of Los Angeles. In 1990, a wildfire burned down his ...

On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family ... conflagration turned his life upside down, Iyer returned to Southern California to share how it transformed his life ...

Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high. Thirty-four years after that conflagration turned his life upside ...

Thirty-four years after that conflagration turned his life upside down, Iyer returned to Southern California to share how it transformed his life, nudging him toward what he now values ...

(AP) — On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family ... turned his life upside down, Iyer returned to Southern California to share how it transformed his life, nudging ...

(RNS) — Recalling the trauma of losing his worldly goods, the novelist and travel writer uses silence as a path to peace amid constant turmoil. (RNS) — Pico Iyer is no stranger to the ...