Elizabeth Gilbert will write about addiction and loss in an upcoming memoir, People magazine reports.
Riverhead will publish the author’s All the Way to the River in the fall. The press describes the book as “an essential, universally resonant new memoir.”
Gilbert’s first book, the short story collection Pilgrims, was published in 1997; she followed that up with a novel, Stern Men, and a nonfiction book, The Last American Man.
She became a literary star in 2006 with the publication of her memoir Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, which spent more than three years on the New York Times bestseller list and spawned a hit movie, Eat Pray Love, starring Julia Roberts.
All the Way to the River will tell the story of Gilbert’s relationship with Rayya Elias, who, like Gilbert, struggled with addiction. Elias died in 2018 after a battle with cancer.
Gilbert announced her memoir on Instagram, writing, “This book is about the darker side of that spiritual, emotional, and physical hunger—in its more extreme forms known as addiction—and how lost we can become in the endless search for connection and satisfaction. And it is about the pathway out of that desperation, through the liberation of a more nourishing way of life.”
All the Way to the River is slated for publication on Sept. 9.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
