Committed: A Love Story

The #1 New York Times bestselling follow-up to Eat, Pray, Love--an intimate and erudite celebration of love—from the author of Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear.

At the end of her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian living in Indonesia. The couple swore eternal love, but also swore (as skittish divorce survivors) never to marry. However, providence intervened in the form of a U.S. government ultimatum: get married, or Felipe could never enter America again. Told with Gilbert's trademark humor and intelligence, this fascinating meditation on compatibility and fidelity chronicles Gilbert's complex and sometimes frightening journey into second marriage, and will enthrall the millions of readers who made Eat, Pray, Love a number one bestseller.

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285 pages

Average rating: 6.93

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HopefulRomanticgirl
Feb 21, 2025
Nourishment for my hopeful romantic, adventurous soul.
Anonymous
Sep 01, 2024
6/10 stars
If you are interested in the history of marriage and how different cultures view marriage, this book is for you.
I admire her for putting herself out there to try to define what marriage might look like for her and Felipe.
Cathy W.
Jul 22, 2024
4/10 stars
This book is very wordy, repetitive, and not an easy read. It's a very good book IF you read the first and last chapters only!
erinmarie0903
Nov 28, 2023
8/10 stars
Listened to the audiobook. Interesting perspective on marriage, divorce, motherhood & the history behind it all.
njlbo1
Jul 18, 2023
8/10 stars
Marriage observed from multiple perspectives, and filtered to us through Gilbert's retelling. Interesting.

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