PositiveLos Angeles Review of BooksThe book’s structure is fragmentary, and the style, though elegant, is epigrammatic ...
It is not obvious, though, in what the change of perception consists, for Iyer’s many remarks on the self conjure a variety of pictures ... This gentle and captivating book, with its cast of attractive and sometimes eccentric seekers of tranquility and goodness, is a long answer to the question of why its author keeps returning to the Hermitage.
