Elizabeth Gilbert left a marriage and a settled life and spent the following year in Italy, India and Indonesia, writing the memoir that came out of it.
The book divides into three parts: eating and learning the language in Rome, months at an ashram working at meditation, and a stretch in Bali where the two threads meet. Gilbert writes candidly about depression, divorce and doubt, and the travel sections carry the self-examination rather than merely decorating it.
Worth knowing first:
• A memoir arranged in three country-length sections
• Honest treatment of divorce, depression and recovery
• Food, meditation and friendship as recurring subjects
• Informal narration addressed directly to the reader
Recommended for readers of travel memoir and anyone interested in first-person accounts of starting over, available from Boipoka.
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