Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
In her memoir, Elizabeth Gilbert dives into the complexity of human emotion and choices.
Elizabeth had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want: a husband, country home, successful career, but she still felt unsatisfied– like she was missing a piece of herself.
Through discovering God she managed to grab a strong hold of her life and release herself from the weight she felt placed onto her by her relationship with her husband and the expectations of bearing a child. This book is an excellent look at the change that people can experience through their life and how they can traverse it through different experiences.
As she goes through the motions of her life, Elizabeth examines herself in three different aspects: eating, praying and loving. In turn it led her to finding her nature, that being, loving herself. This story is a meditation on love in many of the infinite forms it’s able to present itself as, but ultimately it boils down to what I interpret Gilbert views the most meaningful and ultimate version of love, love of the self.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
