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{{Short description|2006 book by Elizabeth Gilbert}}
{{About|the memoir|the film adaptation|Eat Pray Love}}
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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 [[Elizabeth Gilbert]]. The memoir chronicles the author's trip around the world after her divorce and what she discovered during her travels. The book remained on [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]] for 187 weeks.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/books/bestseller/bestpapernonfiction.html?ref=bestseller |work=The New York Times |title=Paperback Nonfiction |date=August 28, 2010 |access-date=May 1, 2010}}</ref> The movie rights for the memoir were purchased by [[Columbia Pictures]]. The [[Eat Pray Love|film version]], which stars [[Julia Roberts]] and [[Javier Bardem]], was released in theaters on August 13, 2010.<ref name="NYPost">{{cite news |url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/12232007/postopinion/postopbooks/eat__pray__loathe_734479.htm?page=0 |title=Eat, Pray, Loathe: Latest Self-Help Best Seller Proves Faith Is Blind |access-date=June 17, 2008 |last=Callahan |first=Maureen |date=December 23, 2007 |work=[[New York Post]]}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090215041943/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/376450/Eat-Pray-Love/overview?scp=2&sq=Eat,%20Pray,%20Love&st=cse "Overview – Eat, Pray, Love (2008)"]. ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved March 19, 2011.</ref>

Gilbert followed up this book with ''[[Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage]]'', released through [[Viking Press|Viking]] in January 2010. It covered her life after ''Eat, Pray, Love'', plus an exploration of the concept of marriage.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/books/committed_skeptic_makes_peace_with_yAO64l1Nu4VnZKPaKnAnTP |work=New York Post |title=Committed: A skeptic makes peace with marriage |first=Maureen |last=Callahan |date=January 3, 2010}}</ref>

==Story==
At 34 years old, Elizabeth Gilbert was educated, had a home, a husband, and a successful career as a writer. She was, however, unhappy in her marriage and initiated a divorce. She then embarked on a rebound relationship that did not work out, leaving her devastated and alone. After finalizing her difficult divorce, she spent the next year traveling the world.<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/books/review/26egan.html |title=Eat, Pray, Love |access-date=June 17, 2008 |last=Egan |first=Jennifer |date=February 26, 2006 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

She spent four months in Italy, eating and enjoying life ("Eat"). She spent three months in India, finding her [[spirituality]] ("Pray").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bluerectangle.com/book_reviews/view_one_review/2261|title=''Eat, Pray, Love'' (review)|access-date=2011-10-24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111207001706/http://bluerectangle.com/book_reviews/view_one_review/2261|archive-date=December 7, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> She ended the year in [[Bali]], Indonesia, looking for "balance" of the two and fell in love with a Brazilian businessman ("Love"), whom she later married and divorced.<ref name="WPost">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/09/AR2006020901684.html |title=Heart and Soul |access-date=June 17, 2008 |last=Lichtenstein |first=Grace |date=February 12, 2006 |work=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>

==Film adaptation==
{{Main|Eat Pray Love}}

[[Columbia Pictures]] purchased [[film rights]] for the memoir and has produced a film version [[Eat Pray Love|under the same title]]. It was released on August 13, 2010. American actress [[Julia Roberts]] starred in the film; [[Ryan Murphy (writer)|Ryan Murphy]] directed it. The film also stars [[Javier Bardem]], [[James Franco]], [[Richard Jenkins]],<ref>[http://thefastertimes.com/theatertalk/2009/07/17/five-questions-for-richard-jenkins "Five Questions for Richard Jenkins"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501220634/http://thefastertimes.com/theatertalk/2009/07/17/five-questions-for-richard-jenkins/ |date=May 1, 2010 }}. ''TheFasterTimes.com''. Retrieved March 19, 2011.</ref> and [[Billy Crudup]].<ref name="NYTimes.com">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/movies/02roberts.html?ex=1288152000&en=35d056a3d4442f2d&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=MO-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M147-ROS-0510-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click |last=Rozen |first=Leah |date=April 29, 2010 |work=The New York Times |title=Mother and Mega-Star, Happily Balanced}}</ref> [[Brad Pitt]] and Dede Gardner of [[Plan B Entertainment|Plan B]], Pitt's production company, produced the film.<ref name="Variety">{{cite news |url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117951656.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 |title=Par setting table for adaptation |access-date=June 17, 2008 |last=Fleming |first=Michael |date=October 10, 2006 |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref>

==Reviews==
Jennifer Egan of ''[[The New York Times]]'' described Gilbert's prose as "fueled by a mix of intelligence, wit and colloquial exuberance that is close to irresistible" but said that the book "drags" in the middle. She was more interested in "the awkward, unresolved stuff she must have chosen to leave out," noting that Gilbert omits the "confusion and unfinished business of real life" and that "we know how the story ends pretty much from the beginning."<ref name="NYTimes"/>

[[Oprah Winfrey]] enjoyed the book, and devoted two episodes of ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' to it.<ref name="NYPost"/>

Maureen Callahan of the ''[[New York Post]]'' heavily criticized the book, calling it "[[narcissistic]] [[New Age]] reading" and "the worst in [[Orientalism|Western fetishization of Eastern thought and culture]], assured in its answers to existential dilemmas that have confounded intellects greater than hers." In addition, she was critical of Oprah's focus on the book, as well as Oprah's fans who enjoy the book, asking why her fans are "indulging in this silliness" and why they aren't "clamoring for more weight when it comes to Oprah's female authors".<ref name="NYPost"/>

[[Katie Roiphe]] of ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'' agreed with Egan about the strength of Gilbert's writing. However, she described the journey as too fake: "too willed, too self-conscious." She stated that given the apparent artificiality of the journey, her "affection for ''Eat, Pray, Love'' is ... furtive" but that "it is a transcendently great beach book."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2007/07/summer_reading.html |title=Summer Reading: Should you read the best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love? |access-date=June 17, 2008 |last=Roiphe |first=Katie |date=July 3, 2007 |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]''{{'s}} Grace Lichtenstein stated that "the only thing wrong with this readable, funny memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure and balance is that it seems so much like a Jennifer Aniston movie."<ref name="WPost"/>

[[Lev Grossman]] of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', however, praised the spiritual aspect of the book, stating that "to read about her struggles with a 182-verse Sanskrit chant, or her (successful) attempt to meditate while being feasted on by mosquitoes, is to come about as close as you can to enlightenment-by-proxy." He did, however, agree with Roiphe that her writing occasionally seems to be "trying too hard to be liked; one feels the belabored mechanism of her jokes."<ref name="Time">{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1161222,00.html |title=The Year of Living Happily |access-date=June 17, 2008 |last=Grossman |first=Lev |date=February 19, 2006 |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref>

Lori Leibovich of [[Salon (website)|Salon]] agreed with several other reviewers about the strength of Gilbert's storytelling. She agreed with Egan as well that Gilbert seems to have an unlimited amount of luck, saying, "Her good fortune seems limitless" and asking "Is it possible for one person to be this lucky?"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/02/23/gilbert |title=Lost and found |access-date=June 17, 2008 |last=Leibovich |first=Lori |work=[[Salon (website)|Salon]]}}</ref>

''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''{{'s}} Jessica Shaw said that "despite a few cringe-worthy turns ... Gilbert's journey is well worth taking."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1160265,00.html |title=Eat, Pray, Love |access-date=June 17, 2008 |last=Shaw |first=Jessica |date=February 17, 2006 |work=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> Don Lattin of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' agreed with Egan that the story was weakest while she was in India and questioned the complete veracity of the book.<ref name="SFGate.com">{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/reviews/books/EAT,_PRAY,_LOVE.DTL |title=Pilgrim wants it all in Italy, India, Indonesia |access-date=June 17, 2008 |last=Lattin |first=Don |date=February 19, 2006 |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]}}</ref> Barbara Fisher of ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' also praised Gilbert's writing, stating that "she describes with intense visual, palpable detail. She is the epic poet of ecstasy."<ref>
{{cite news |url=https://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2006/02/19/short_takes_boston_globe |title=Eat, Pray, Love |access-date=June 17, 2008 |last=Fisher |first=Barbara |date=February 19, 2006 |work=[[The Boston Globe]]}}</ref>

In early 2010, the feminist magazine ''[[Bitch (magazine)|Bitch]]'' published a critical review and social commentary called "Eat, Pray, Spend." Authors Joshunda Sanders and Diana Barnes-Brown wrote that "''Eat, Pray, Love'' is not the first book of its kind, but it is a perfect example of the genre of priv-lit: literature or media whose expressed goal is one of spiritual, [[existential]], or philosophical enlightenment contingent upon women's hard work, commitment, and patience, but whose actual barriers to entry are primarily financial." The genre, they argued, positions women as inherently and deeply flawed and offers "no real solutions for the astronomically high tariffs—both financial and social—that exclude all but the most fortunate among us from participating."<ref>[http://bitchmagazine.org/article/eat-pray-spend "Eat, Pray, Spend"]. ''BitchMagazine.com''. Retrieved June 14, 2010.</ref>

==See also==
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* [[Yoga tourism]]

==References==
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== External links ==
{{Wikiquote|Eat Pray Love}}
* {{Official website|http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/eatpraylove.htm}}

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