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Eat,
Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and
Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author and memoirist Elizabeth
Gilbert. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after
her divorce, and what she discovered during her travels. As of February
2010, the book had remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for 158
weeks
At 32 years old, Gilbert was educated, had a home and a husband, and a
successful career as a writer. However, she was not happy; she was
depressed with her marriage, often spending the night crying on her
bathroom floor. She divorced her husband and entered into a relationship
with another man, but this relationship did not work out either. She
decided that she needed a change. She spent the next year traveling the
world. She spent four months in Italy, eating and enjoying life (Eat). She
spent four months in India, trying to find her spirituality (Pray). She
ended the year in Bali, Indonesia, looking for "balance" of the
two, and love (Love).
Gilbert paid for the trip with an advance she received on a book she
planned to write.