Elizabeth Gilbert’s new memoirs “explores all the way to the river” “darker side of spiritual, emotional and physical hunger” (exclusive) – AOL

Elizabeth Gilbert returned with emotionally nourished new memoirs.

People can say exclusively that Eat, pray, love The author will post a new memoir, All the way to the river: love, loss and liberation This fall via Riverhead Books.

Memoirs tracked Gilbert’s relationship with her late partner Raya Elias, who the author meets in 2000. Paradise, an artist who became a hairdresser, and Gilbert, a writer and self -proclaimed the likes of people at the time, were full opposites at the beginning, but They soon created an indestructible connection. When the tragedy happened, the two – both unrecognized drug addicts – found themselves in a crash.

“I am writing for people who are seekers, people who are hungry, people who are restless, people who may have felt from the earliest childhood that absolutely should have a higher meaning in what we are us is shown, “Gilbert says in a statement shared with people.

“This book is about the darker side of this spiritual, emotional and physical hunger-in its more extreme forms, known as addiction-and how much lost we can become in the endless search for connection and satisfaction,” the author continues. “And this is the way from this despair, by returning to a more nutritious lifestyle.”

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For Gilbert, author of bestselling books such as creative guide Magic and novel The city of girls., All the way to the riverWhich takes its title from an internal joke with Rayya, has been a long time – in fact, seven years.

“Paradise has always said that I was her friend from” all the way to the river “and I always felt her being mine,” Gilbert explains. “When she realized that she was dying of cancer, we began to call her upcoming death the” river ” – and I promised that I would go all the way to this river with her. But going to the river with someone is not always an easy journey – and in the end it is what this story is for. “

“I was actually trying to write a book about paradise from the day she died in January 2018,” the author continues. “I think it took me so much time to tell our story because it took me years of therapy, grief, confusion, recovery and sobriety so that I can even understand everything that had happened between us and why.”

“And although it was often painful to go back and survive this story-especially the court diving back to the more haotic and devastating parts of our trip-it was eventually incredibly healing to be able to achieve peace with the past and feel that it was Paradise (who loved the truth more than anything) would approve of this story. “

The author also acknowledges the vulnerability arising from the sharing of the intimate history of the relationship between her and the paradise in the memoirs.

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“I never wanted my love story with paradise in millions of years to become as dark, dangerous and heartbreaking as it became,” Gilbert says. “Still, without this shocking pain, I would never have the spiritual awakening that awaited me on the other side of my show – and in the end it is what this book is for.

Writing the book was a journey, just as Gilbert hopes to be her reading.

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“There were so many things that I had to arrange and understand – not only about this particular love story, but also about all my relationships and why I can get so lost in them,” the author says. “I am so proud of this book and I am excited to share it with readers around the world, who, I hope, will find a sense of recognition, awakening and liberation in these pages.”

All the way to the river: love, loss and liberation It will be published on September 9, 2025 and is now available for pre -order anywhere where books are sold.

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