Review
From the book jacket: Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty,
she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an
educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want—a husband, a house, a
successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed
with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing
depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever
thought she was supposed to be.
To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself
the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted,
she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey
around the world—all alone.
Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of
that year. Her aim was to visit three places...
Beyond the Book
Elizabeth Gilbert was born in Connecticut in 1969 and was raised on a
small family tree
farm. She is the sister of the young adult novelist Catherine Murdock whose
first book
Dairy Queen was published in 2006. Elizabeth went to college
in New York City in the early 1990’s, and spent the years after college
traveling around the country and the world, working odd jobs, writing short
stories and essentially creating what she has referred to as her own MFA
program.
After more than five years of sending out work for publication and collecting
only rejection letters, she finally broke onto the literary scene in 1993, when
one of her short stories was pulled from the slush pile at Esquire magazine and
published under the heading “The...
