All the Way to the River

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With Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert started a movement ... This new memoir is just as powerful - raw, unflinching and deeply healing. She bares her soul, sharing her truth so openly, she offers readers the courage to face their own -- Oprah Winfrey Gilbert's supernatural ability to find the upside is her unique power as a writer ... [Gilbert] is a good advert for what to do when you end up on the floor: take it as a sign to look inward * Observer * Heart-breaking, sometimes harrowing, but with profound honesty, Elizabeth Gilbert asks us to hope. No one who reads this book will ever forget it -- Meg Mason An absolute masterclass and truth-bomb of a memoir, packed with rawness, courage and poetry. I feel changed by it. The deepest truest manifesto I've ever read on recovery, addiction, facing yourself and what it means to belong. I think many people will be shaken awake by this book -- Emma Gannon Elizabeth Gilbert has written her rawest memoir yet ... The acclaimed author pulls no punches, offering an unvarnished look at love, addiction, and the long road to recovery * Elle * Classic Gilbert: entertaining, insightful, wrenching, self-effacing, self-indulgent and profoundly real. Its strongest scenes, of Gilbert and partner Rayya Elias's beyond-beautiful and then beyond-ugly interactions, are punch-to-the-gut powerful ... She furthers the enduring women's crusade to split the world open * Washington Post * In gorgeous prose, we see Gilbert come apart and find the strength to put herself back together again ... A delicious mashup of narrative that's by turns harrowing and healing * People * A blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid, transcendent, and compelling ... Gilbert is undoubtedly a force * Boston Globe * A loving tribute to Elias, an unfiltered descent into substance abuse, and an intimate look at Gilbert's hard fought road to recovery * TIME * What makes this book worthy is the author's fierce self-reckoning: there's no easy triumph, just more hard work * Los Angeles Times * Deeply personal ... A beautiful portrait of a woman learning to care for herself * Real Simple * Gilbert achieves her signature intimacy through a bluntly confessional tone ... and an admirable ability to stare darkness in the face without losing hope. Readers struggling with addiction or seeking a path through heartbreak will find invaluable wisdom in these pages * Publishers Weekly, starred review * Gilbert rips open her life to share all the painful moments and grief ... in a story of despair and courage that ... must have been unimaginable to write ... A brave story with an ultimately hopeful outcome. Anyone who has faced addiction - or loved someone who has - will recognize and be moved by Gilbert's journey * Booklist, starred review * The author of the world's most famous memoir returns to the form to tell the story of a great love ... A worthy addition to the literature of addiction and recovery, charming and harrowing by turns * Kirkus * Like the romantic crash and burn Gilbert describes, a wild ride of a book. I devoured it in one sitting ... If you're a fan of addiction memoirs that are prepared to get down in the mucky darkness of life, it's an instant classic * Standard *