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At the age of thirty one Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband Three years later after a protracted divorce she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery with three main stops Rome for pleasure mostly gustatory with a special emphasis on gelato an ashram outside of Mumbai for spiritual searching and Bali for balancing These destinations are all on the beaten track but Gilbert s exuberance and her self-deprecating humor enliven the proceedings recalling the first time she attempted to speak directly to God she says It was all I could do to stop myself from saying Ive always been a Gilbert s prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible The New York Times Book Review A meditation on love in its many forms ove of food language humanity God.
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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.
