‘All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation’ by Elizabeth Gilbert

In Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling memoirs, including her latest, “whiplash is a feature, not a bug,” said in The Washington Post . Millions of readers fell in love with the author’s voice in Eat Pray Love , the 2006 blockbuster that chronicled her globe-hopping, yearlong, postdivorce quest for individual fulfillment. But she followed that up with a book championing marriage, then publicly disclosed that she had left her second husband to be with the love of her life: a woman named Rayya Elias who had been her best friend for years. Elias had been diagnosed with cancer by then and given six months to live, and this new book details the dark drama that followed. In the tale’s strongest scenes, the couple’s

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