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Always, just around the corner, is a newer, better life. The chance to escape your past. The chance to be a new person. The opportunity to be happy. Finally. There has been no better known or more successful book or film on the deeply personal and transformational impacts of travel than Eat, Pray Love by journalist Elizabeth Glibert.
Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house, a successful career – yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. It’s 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She’s in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they’re trying for a baby – and she doesn’t want any of it.
Shortly thereafter, battered and bewildered, newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy, learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins. She then finds the power of prayer in an ashram in India, where enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor. Finally in Bali a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. And slowly happiness begins to creep up on her.
Along with her only sister, novelist Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Gilbert grew up on a small family Christmas tree farm in Litchfield, Connecticut. The family lived in the country with no neighbors: they did not own a television or record player. Consequently, the family read a great deal, and Gilbert and her sister entertained themselves by writing books and plays. She says it was this early emphasis on reading that turned her into a writer.
Gilbert earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from New York University in 1991, after which she worked as a cook, a waitress, and a magazine employee. Her career took off after she became the first unpublished writer since Norman Mailer to be published by Esquire Magazine. She was paid a $200,000 advance when she pitched the idea for Eat, Pray, Love, which later became a highly popular film starring Julia Roberts.
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