HER OWN SEARCH - HER OWN VOICE, BOTH IMPRESSIVE: Eat, Pray, Love

March 31, 2008
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback)
 
5.0 out of 5 stars HER OWN SEARCH - HER OWN VOICE, BOTH IMPRESSIVE, February 26, 2006
 
By Gail Cooke (TX, USA) 
 

Reading the subtitle of Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest book, "One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia," one can only think well, she certainly knows where to look! Also, upon learning that this is her chosen way of recovering from a particularly acrimonious divorce and a trying-to-make-up-for-that-loss romance that didn’t work, we might think how fortunate she is to able to seek solace in such intriguing places.

Whatever our opinion of her reasons for this journey it has been established that she’s a super writer (The Last American Man), and she brings all of her wit, intellect and stylish pen to Eat Pray Love. More than that, she brought a great deal of courage to her chosen task of traveling the world alone at the age of 34. She felt she needed a dramatic change, and it may be that she has found it.

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