Elizabeth Gilbert · 2006 · global

Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 memoir. In the wake of a shattering divorce, she spends a year travelling in search of pleasure, devotion and balance - four months eating her way through Italy in Rome, four in an ashram in India, and four in Ubud on Bali studying with a medicine man and unexpectedly finding love. One woman's reassembly of a life across three countries.

1. 1
   New York

   At the bottom of a shattering divorce and depression, Gilbert resolves to spend a year abroad rebuilding herself from nothing.

2. 2
   Rome

   In Italy she learns the language and surrenders to the pure pleasure of food and idleness, healing through the art of doing nothing.

3. 3
   The Ashram

   At a guru's ashram outside Mumbai she wrestles with meditation, grief and forgiveness, hunting for stillness and God.

4. 4
   Ubud

   In Bali she studies with an old medicine man, finds her equilibrium, and unexpectedly, love with a Brazilian named Felipe.