All The Way To The River by Gilbert Elizabeth

Love, Loss, And Liberation

Great, 5 stars

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.

Details

ISBN9780593540985
Copyright Date2025
Publication DateSeptember 9, 2025
PublisherPenguin Group
FormatHardcover
No. of Pages400
LanguageEnglish
RatingGreat
GenreAutobiography/Biography
SubjectAddicts - Biography. - United States; Bereavement; Lesbians - Biography. - United States; Spouses of cancer patients - Biography. - United States; Women authors, American - Biography