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Book Review: Eat, Pray, Love By Elizabeth Gilbert

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What do you do when the life you had planned falls to pieces? What do you do when the life you had always wanted — a spouse, a child, a home, a successful career — isn’t what you really wanted after all? How do you reconcile the life you have now? How do you begin again?

After a devastating divorce and a crippling depression, Elizabeth Gilbert decides to parlay a writing assignment into a year-long odyssey to re-examine her life. She decides to spend four months in Italy where she will “eat” and examine the Italian propensity towards pleasure, another four months in India where she will “pray” and delve into the spiritual aspect of her nature, and the remaining four months in Bali, where she will find the courage to “love” again and find a balance between the two extremes of pleasure and penance.

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