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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK
"A delicious mashup of narrative that's by turns harrowing and healing." –People
“Entertaining, insightful, wrenching ... punch-to-the-gut powerful.” –The Washington Post
“A blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid, transcendent, and compelling...Gilbert is undoubtedly a force.” —Boston Globe
In her first nonfiction book…
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3 authors picked All the Way to the River as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love the way Elizabeth Gilbert writes about surrender and holds nothing back in her confessions.
Her language is fluid, alive, honest, and forgiving. I connected deeply with her exploration of loss and letting go—the sense that life’s current, if trusted, carries us exactly where we need to go.
What moved me most was her unflinching honesty about sex and love addiction. She doesn’t try to appear perfect or heroic; she allows herself to be fully human. That raw vulnerability—her willingness to tell the truth even when it’s messy—is exactly what makes her work so transformative and what continues to…
From Rachel's list on transforming pain and trauma into wisdom through presence and mindfulness.
I have been waiting for this memoir for 5+ years. I don't want any more bad things to happen to this author, but gosh darn it, she sure can create a great memoir out dire circumstances. I thought it would be be about love and loss. And it was. But it was so much more. It was about addiction and recovery and attempted murder and faith and life and death. This extraordinary intersection of all these concepts has produced a memoir that is excruciating, gut-wrenching and raw to the bone. Needless to say, I loved it. Sure it went into…
Beautiful, raw, and as honest about different types of addiction as you can get. With Liz Gilberts' typical soft, humorous, cut-through-the-crap voice.
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