About this book - In what could be construed as a coming-of-age story for thirtysomethings, Gilbert leaves behind an excruciating divorce, tumultuous affair, and debilitating depression as she sets off on a yearlong quest to bridge the gulf between body, mind, and spirit. Part self-deprecating tour guide, part wry, witty chronicler, Gilbert relates this chapter of her life with a compelling, richly detailed narrative that eschews the easy answers of New Age rhetoric. In the book’s early pages, a flashback finds the smart, savvy, successful Gilbert on her knees on the bathroom floor of the Westchester house she inhabits with her husband, wailing and wallowing in sorrow, snot, and tears (“a veritable Lake Inferior”), awkwardly embarking on her first conversation with God.
About the author - Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times
bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love,
as well as the short story collection, Pilgrims
—a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. A Pushcart Prize
winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ
. Her journalism has been published in Harper's Bazaar
, Spin
, and The New York Times Magazine, and her stories have appeared in Esquire
, Story, and the Paris Review.More from Elizabeth Gilbert - Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
, Pilgrims, Stern Men: A Novel
, The Last American Man
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