All the Way to the River: Oprahs Book Club: Love, Loss, and Liberation

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN OPRAHS BOOK CLUB PICKA delicious mashup of narrative thats by turns harrowing and healing. PeopleEntertaining, insightful, wrenching punchtothegut powerful. The Washington PostA blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid, transcendent, and compellingGilbert is undoubtedly a force. Boston GlobeIn her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your selfdestructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to loveor to any other passion, substance, or cravingand who yearns, at long last, for liberation.