All the Way to the River

<p><b>In her first non-fiction book in a decade, the no. 1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (<i>Eat Pray Love</i>) and creatively (<i>Big Magic</i>) shows how to break free.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br><i>All the Way to the River</i> 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.</p>