Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 memoir of a year spent in Italy, India, and Indonesia after a painful divorce and depression — eating in Italy, meditating in an ashram in India, and finding love in Bali — one of the bestselling memoirs of the 21st century.
Created the spiritual journey travel memoir as a genre — Eat Pray Love's combination of personal crisis, cultural tourism, and spiritual seeking defined a subgenre and permission structure for women's personal reinvention narratives.
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