Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
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
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.
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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Community Reviews
Marriage observed from multiple perspectives, and filtered to us through Gilbert's retelling. Interesting.
I enjoyed this and it was so informative. I am going to insist that my step-daughter read this, as she's heading off to college and I think that chapter on infatuation is enlightening.
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.
I admire her for putting herself out there to try to define what marriage might look like for her and Felipe.
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