Eat Pray Love

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 & fulfilled she felt consumed by panic & confusion. This wise & rapturous book is the story of how she left behind all these outward marks of success & of what she found in their place. Following a divorice & a crushing depression Gilbert set out to examine three different aspects of her nature set against the backdrop of three different cultures: pleasures in Italy devotion in India & on the Indonesian island of Bali a balance between worldly enjoyment & divine transcendence.