Booking It! Nonfiction Book Discussion Group Tuesday, April 22 7-8:00 p.m. Miami Middletown Downtown 4 North Main St., Middletown
Eat,
Pray, Love: One Womans Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and
Indonesia by
Elizabeth Gilbert
#1 on the NY
Times Paperback Non-Fiction List for over a year!
By the time she
turned thirty, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a modern, educated, ambitious
American woman was supposed to wanta husband, a house in the country, a
successful career. But in-stead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was
consumed with panic, grief and confusion. She went through a divorce, a
crushing depression, another failed love and the complete eradication of everything
she ever thought she was supposed to be.
To recover from all of this,
Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to
find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her
belongings, quit her job, left her loved ones behind and undertook a year-long
journey around the world, all alone. Eat,
Pray, Love is the absorbing
chronicle of that year.
An intensely articulate,
sensible, moving and funny memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about
what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment It
is also about the adventures that can transpire when a woman stops trying to
live in imitation of society's ideals This is a story certain to touch anyone
who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.
Join us for relaxed, informal discussion and tea! For more information,
contact Barbara Roberts: robertb5@muohio.edu | 513.727-3337
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