Audio Book Description:
By age thirty, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern American woman was supposed towant-a husband, a house in the country, a successfulcareer. But instead of feeling happy, she was consumed with panic, grief, confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failedlove, and complete eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be.To recover from this, Gilberttook a radical step. She gotrid of her belongings, quit herjob, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone. EAT, PREY, LOVE isthe absorbing chronicle of thatyear. Gilbert`s aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature, set against the backdrop of a culture that hastraditionally done that one thing very well. In Italy she studied the art of pleasure, Indiawas for the art of devotion, and in Indonesia she soughther ultimate goal: a life of equilibrium between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence.
