All the Way to the River: Oprah's Book Club Love, Loss, and Liberation

<b>INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b><br>AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK<br><br>"A delicious mashup of narrative that's by turns harrowing and healing." <i>–People<br><br></i>“Entertaining, insightful, wrenching … punch-to-the-gut powerful.” <i>–The Washington Post<br></i><br>“A blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid, transcendent, and compelling…Gilbert is undoubtedly a force.” <i>—Boston Globe</i> <br><br>In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (<i>Eat Pray Love</i>) and creatively (<i>Big Magic</i>) shows how to break free.<br></b><br>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.<br><br>What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive 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?<br><br><i>All the Way to the River</i> is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love—or to any other passion, substance, or craving—and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.