AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "A delicious mashup of
narrative that's by turns harrowing and healing." –People “Entertaining insightful
wrenching … punch-to-the-gut powerful.” –The Washington Post “A blockbuster: brutally honest
lurid transcendent and compelling…Gilbert is undoubtedly a force.” —Boston Globe In 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 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? All the Way to the River 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.
