A Great Book: Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert takes us along her one year search for meaning and self in Italy, India and Indonesia.  Her honesty about the pain experienced in a drawn out divorce and a subsequent broken relationship leads us into an excursion of finding solace, a deeper sense of self, and spirituality.  Hers is a discovery of grace.  Her writing is exquisite.  Here is one excerpt that spoke to me:  "I think about the woman I have become lately, about the life that I am now living, and about how much I always wanted to be this person and live this life, liberated from the farce of pretending to be anyone other than myself."  (p. 329)  This is one of the most enjoyable books I have read in years--a memoir filled with honest self assessment, wonderful characters, forgiveness, grace, spirituality and love.