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Elizabeth Gilbert has a new memoir coming out Sept. 9, All the Way to the River

It follows Gilbert and Rayya Elias' life together, as well as the end of Rayya's, and the author's coming to terms with her sex and love addiction

“How in the world could we be of service unless we let ourselves be seen?” says Gilbert, of the book's deeply personal subject matter

It took seven years for Elizabeth Gilbert to write about the events surrounding the death of her partner, Rayya Elias, in 2018 . Her new memoir, All the Way to the River (out Sept. 9 from Riverhead Books), is a delicious mashup of narrative that’s by turns harrowing and healing; prayers and poems that serve as road markers along the way; and Gilbert’s own sketches, to give readers a moment to stop, breathe an

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