At thirty-something, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything she was supposed to want—a husband, a house, a successful career—and found herself sobbing on the bathroom floor, certain that the life she had built was not the one she was meant to live. After a wrenching divorce and a shattering love affair, she set out to spend a year abroad in search of pleasure, devotion, and balance.
Eat, Pray, Love follows that journey across three countries. In Italy, Gilbert gives herself over to the simple joy of food, language, and idleness, learning to take pleasure without guilt. In India, she throws herself into the discipline of an ashram, wrestling with prayer, silence, and her own restless mind. And in Bali, under the guidance of a toothless old medicine man, she looks for equilibrium between the appetites of the body and the needs of the spirit—and, unexpectedly, finds love again.
Candid, funny, and searching, Gilbert's blockbuster memoir became a defining book of modern self-discovery. It is a frank account of depression, divorce, and rebuilding a self, told with warmth and a traveler's eye for the world.