Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

352 Pages·2006·0.58 MB·English

by  Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love
ALSO BY ELIZABETH GILBERT

Pilgrims

Stern Men

The Last American Man

Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love
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Eat, pray, love: one woman’s search for everything
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Eat, Pray, Love

For Susan Bowen—
who provided refuge

even from 12,000 miles away

Eat, Pray, Love
Tell the truth, tell the truth, tell the truth.*
—Sheryl Louise Moller
* Except when attempting to solve emergency Balinese real estate transactions, such as
described in Book 3.
Eat, Pray, Love
CONTENTS

Introduction

Book One

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5
Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17
Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29
Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Book Two

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40
Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52
Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Chapter 64
Chapter 65

Chapter 66

Chapter 67

Chapter 68

Chapter 69

Chapter 70

Chapter 71

Chapter 72

Book Three

Chapter 73

Chapter 74

Chapter 75