num_pages: 13
description: Oddly but aptly titled, Eat, Pray, Love is an experience to be savored: This spiritual memoir brims with humor, grace, and scorching honesty. After a messy divorce and other personal missteps, Elizabeth Gilbert confronts the "twin goons" of depression and loneliness by traveling to three countries that she intuited had something she was seeking. First, in Italy, she seeks to master the art of pleasure by indulging her senses. Then, in an Indian ashram, she learns the rigors and liberation of mind-exalting hours of meditation. Her final destination is Bali, where she achieves a precarious, yet precious equilibrium. Gilbert's original voice and unforced wit lend an unpretentious air to her expansive spiritual journey.
language: English
title: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
titlecomplete: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
characters: Wayan, Felipe, Richard from Texas, Liz Gilbert
genres: Chick Lit, Biography, Travel, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Romance, Spirituality, Memoir, Contemporary, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 1701916
places: Indonesia, Ubud, Bali, Bali, Southeast Asia, India, Italy, New York City, New York, Rome
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Puddly Award
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Books on Tape