All the Way to the River

What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? An essential,universally resonant new memoir from the #1 bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic. Twenty years agoElizabeth GilbertΓÇÖs Eat Pray Love inspired millions of readers to embark upon their own journeys of self-discovery. A decade laterBig Magic empowered countless others to live their most creative lives. Now comes another landmark bookΓÇöabout love and lossaddiction and recoverygrief and liberation. In 2000a friend sent Liz to see a new hairdresser named Rayya Elias. An intense and unlikely curiosity sparked between these two apparent opposites: Rayyaan East Village badass who lived boldly on her own terms but feared she was a failed artist; Liza married people-pleaser with a surprisingly unfettered sense of creativity. Over the yearsthey became friendsthen best friendsthen inseparable. When tragedy entered their livesthe truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. Unacknowledged: they were also a pair of addictson a collision course toward catastrophe. What if the love of your lifeΓÇöand the person you most trusted in the worldΓÇöbecame a danger to your sanity and wellbeing? 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? All the Way to the River is for everyone who has ever been captive to love ΓÇô or to any other passionsubstanceor cravingΓÇöand who yearnsat long lastfor peace and freedom.