Elizabeth Gilbert

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.

"All the Way to the River" is available to pre-order through our partner bookseller White Whale Bookstore.

You may also like the following events from Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures:

• Next month, 12th August, 07:00 pm, Karin Slaughter in Pittsburgh
• This September, 15th September, 07:30 pm, Jill Lepore in Pittsburgh

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