The Man Within My Head (32 page)

Thank you, finally, to Hiroko, for more than everything, and to my mother, for all the things I’ve long forgotten and failed to thank her for, and thank you to the author who, almost in spite of himself, taught me and so many others how to move around the world and even how to hazard trust—especially when the evidence may be against it.

Pico Iyer has written nonfiction books on globalism, Japan, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and forgotten places, and novels on Revolutionary Cuba and Islamic mysticism. He regularly writes on literature for
The New York Review of Books
, on travel for the
Financial Times
and on global culture and the news for
Time
,
The New York Times
and magazines around the world.