I love the way she has written exactly 36 chapters (or tales as she calls them) about each country. This book is about that life-changing journey that she takes for one whole year.Įat Pray Love is very beautifully divided into three phases, each one dedicated to a single country.

So she set out on a weird adventure – she will go to three countries in a year and see if she can find out what she was looking for in life. She didn’t know where to go and what to do – all she knew was that she wanted to run away. Having suffered a terrible divorce and a terrible break up soon after, Elizabeth was shattered. Though she had everything a middle-aged American woman can aspire for – money, career, friends, Elizabeth was not happy in her life, she wasn’t happy in her marriage. These are also the three Is – ITALY, INDIA, INDONESIA. The book is a real story and is a short journal from the time when its writer went travelling to three different countries in pursuit of three different things – Italy (Pleasure), India (Spirituality), Bali (Balance) and this is what corresponds to the book’s name – EAT (in Italy), PRAY (in India) and LOVE (in Bali, Indonesia). I don’t remember what I expected it to be – maybe more like a chick-lit but it turned out quite different. Having felt ashamed many times on my not having read this book, I quietly ordered the book (before I saw the movie) from Amazon and sat down to read it. Eat Pray Love is so popular that it is almost impossible to not read it.

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert