EAT, PRAY, LOVE by Elizabeth Gilbert
This book was loaned to me by my good friend Kiki who was once a Peace Corps volunteer in Namibia. I read it during my first few days at site, when most everyone was still on vacation from the school break and there was nothing to do. It was just one of those relaxing, easy reads. I guess it’s what they call leisure reading.
So, Liz Gilbert decides, for reasons even she can’t really pin down that she doesn’t want to be married to her husband anymore. She resists divorcing him for a long time, then has a spiritual conversion of sorts where she starts talking to herself or God, she’s not sure which. She gives herself (or God gives her) permission to divorce her husband. He hates her for it, she gets a new boyfriend who introduces her to an Indian Guru, and then the meat of the book, which is her year-long voyage to Italy, India, and Indonesia begins.
In Italy, she focuses on food and learning Italian. In India, she focuses on meditation in an Ashram. In Indonesia, she focuses on learning another form of meditation from this traditional healer guy. Of course a lot other stuff happens throughout and a big part of the book is her trying to figure out her spirituality.
Overall, it was an interesting read. It’s just one lady’s account of trying to figure out what the hell life on this planet means. I don’t know that she figures all that much out, but most of us don’t.