Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It (life Journeys Inspired By The Bestselling Memoir)

By (author) Elizabeth Gilbert; Introduction by Gilbert, Elizabeth
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In the ten years since its electrifying debut, Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love has become a worldwide phenomenon, empowering millions of readers to set out on paths they never thought possible. In this candid and captivating collection, nearly fifty of those readers – as diverse in their experiences as they are in age and background – share their stories. Eat Pray Love helped one woman to embrace motherhood, another to come to terms with the loss of her mother, and a third to find peace with not wanting to become a mother at all. One writer finds new love overseas; another embraces his sexual identity. The journeys they recount are transformative –sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, but always inspiring. Entertaining and enlightening, Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It is a celebration for fans old and new.
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I loved Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, passed to me by a friend
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What she does is very courageous and very difficult, though ultimately liberating, and I think we all wish that one day we would feel a certain way about ourselves and really do something about it
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I loved it
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If a more likable writer than Gilbert is currently in print, I haven’t found him or her ... Gilbert’s prose is fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible
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It’s like listening to your wisest and funniest best friend opening their heart to you. It taught me a lot about patience and optimism
Biographical note
Elizabeth Gilbert is the number one bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and seven other internationally bestselling books of fiction and non-fiction. Her story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award; The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her follow-up memoir to Eat Pray Love, Committed, became an instant number one New York Times bestseller, as did her most recent book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. She has published two novels, Stern Men and The Signature of All Things, which was longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. She lives in New Jersey. elizabethgilbert.com / @GilbertLiz
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True stories inspired by one of the most iconic, beloved, bestselling books of our time, with an introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Eat Pray Love, an international sensation, sold over ten million copies worldwide and was made into a film starring Julia Roberts. Eat, Pray, Love, Committed and Big Magic have all been No. 1 New York Times bestsellers, inspiring millions to change their lives.
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Readers can’t get enough of the Liz Gilbert magic – this book celebrates the extraordinary positive impact her defining work has had on people’s lives, recounted in their own words.
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Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It contains an introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert with her response to these amazing true stories