Eat Pray Love
Self-discovery travel memoir
Eat Pray Love is a 2006 memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert chronicling her year of travel through Italy, India, and Indonesia after divorce—eating in Rome, meditating in an ashram, finding love in Bali.
The title has become shorthand for a certain type of privileged self-discovery journey, often used with gentle mockery: She quit her job and went full Eat Pray Love.
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- self-help bookManual for personal development
- journeyTravel from place to place
- spiritual journeyPursuit of transcendent meaning
- ElizabethFeminine given name
Gilbert · Italy · India · Bali · travel · solo travel · healing · divorce · mid-life crisis · self-discovery · finding yourself · pasta · meditation · ashram · romance · spirituality · wanderlust · finding
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- culinary fiction
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Eat Pray Lovenihilism
Rejection of objective meaning
spiritual emptiness · existential despair · stagnation · rootedness · self-denial
Eat Pray LoveThe Road
Paved travel surface
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