"A meditation on love in its many forms-love of food language humanity God and most meaningful for Gilbert love of self... Gilbert's wry unfettered account of her extraordinary journey lets even the most cynical reader dare to dream of someday finding God deep in a meditation cave in India or perhaps over a transcendent slice of pizza."
-Los Angeles Times

In her early thirties Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern American woman was supposed to want-husband country home successful career-but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled she felt consumed by panic and confusion. This wise and rapturous book is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of success and of what she found in their place. Following a divorce and a crushing deppresion Gilbert set out to examine three different aspects of her nature set against the backdrop of three different aspects of her nature set against the backdrop of three different cultures:pleasure in Italy devotion in India and on the ındonesian island of Bali a balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence.