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Revs. Brian & Sheila's
Pick O' The Month
Janaury 2010
EAT, PRAY, LOVE:
One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by
Elizabeth Gilbert
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In what could be construed as a coming-of-age story for thirty-somethings, Gilbert leaves behind an excruciating divorce, tumultuous affair, and debilitating depression as she sets off on a yearlong quest to bridge the gulf between body, mind, and spirit. Part self-deprecating tour guide, part wry, witty chronicler, Gilbert relates this chapter of her life with a compelling, richly detailed narrative that eschews the easy answers of New Age rhetoric. In the book's early pages, a flashback finds the smart, savvy, successful Gilbert on her knees on the bathroom floor of the Westchester house she inhabits with her husband, wailing and wallowing in sorrow, snot, and tears ("a veritable Lake Inferior"), awkwardly embarking on her first conversation with God.
Gilbert sets out "to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India, and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two." We travel with Gilbert as she explores the delights of Italy. Then we join Gilbert as she spends time in an ashram in India, where racing thoughts eventually yield to successful meditation and a cast of supportive characters, including a plumber-poet from New Zealand, an ever-amiable, sage Texan, and the Indian tomboy she scrubs the temple floors with as part of her devotional duty.
By the time Gilbert arrives in Indonesia, she has shed her grief, realizing her own ability to control her reaction to life's events. She is strong, enjoying a succession of simple days spent with the medicine man, a Javanese surfer dude, and a woman healer. Bicycling around Bali, she finds balance and, as the title suggests, love. Happiness, Gilbert comes to realize, "is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it."
Regularly: $15.00
20% Discount during the Month of January 2010
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