Bestselling Author to Appear in Frenchtown NJ

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Elizabeth Gilbert, Author Of “Eat, Pray, Love” will be appearing at Book Garden, 28 Bridge St., Frenchtown, NJ on Sunday, June 24 from 2 to 5 PM.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, has been the #1 New York Times Bestseller for 18 weeks running in the category of Paperback Non-Fiction.

Eat, Pray, Love is the chronicle of this journey of self-realization, which took Gilbert around the world by herself and which she recounts in 3 parts, each told in 36 short segments, so that the book matches the pattern of the 108 beads on the japa mala, the traditional Indian payer necklace. Gilbert’s first stop was in Italy where she studied the art of pleasure, eating enough to gain “the happiest 23 pounds of her life,” learning Italian, and practicing bel far niente, “the beauty of doing nothing.” From there, she went to India, where she spent four months in a ashram, engaged in a rigorous practice of meditation, yoga, and manual labor. There, she found an unlikely spiritual mentor in a Texan Cowboy, who affectionately calls her “Groceries” for her healthy appetite. From India, Gilbert went to Bali, a place that to her more than anywhere else in the world best combined the art of pleasure and the art of devotion. There, she apprenticed herself to an elderly medicine man, befriended a female healer, and, quite unexpectedly, fell in love.

An intensely articulate, moving, and funny memoir of self-discovery, both entertaining and engrossing, "Eat, Pray, Love" is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for you own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society’s ideals.

About the Author: Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short story collection, Pilgrims-a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the 1999 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares-and a novel, Stern Men. The Last American Man, her biography of mountain man Eustace Conway, was a National Book Award finalist. A Pushcart Prize winner and National Magazine Award-nominated journalist, she works as writer-at-large for GQ. Her journalism has been published in Harper's Bazaar, Spin, and The New York Times Magazine, and her stories have appeared in Esquire, Story, and the Paris Review.

Elizabeth Gilbert will be on book tour in May in Miami, Nashville, Charleston, and Louisville. She’ll be on tour in June in San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego.

To arrange an interview or request a review copy please contact: Lindsay Prevette, 212-366-2224. To reserve a copy of the book or audio book or for additional information please contact Book Garden 908-996-2022.

Book Garden
28 Bridge Street
Frenchtown NJ 08825
908-996-2022
Website: Bookgarden.biz

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