Description Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening.
But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can su.
| Rites | Going to the post office and engaging in furious games of pingpong every evening |
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| But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to | Parents age children scatter and |
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Autumn light. season of fire and farewells, paperback/pico iyer
