"As you may know if you are one of the 30 million people who bought Eat Pray Love, one of the tens of millions who have read Big Magic or one of her other novels, or simply one of her 1.2 million followers on Instagram, Gilbert recently published a memoir that tells the story of the final years of Rayya Elias, a 57-year-old hair stylist who died of cancer in 2018."
"This was the woman for whom Gilbert left her husband the one she met in Bali at the end of the first memoir and with whom she descended into a drug-addled nightmare after Elias's diagnosis. It is a horrific tale, one in which Gilbert watches, sometimes helpless, sometimes enabling, as Elias spirals into paranoia and addiction and drags the boundary-less Gilbert down with her."
Elizabeth Gilbert’s All the Way to the River recounts the final years of Rayya Elias, a 57-year-old hair stylist who died of cancer in 2018. The memoir portrays Gilbert abandoning her husband for Elias, then descending into a drug-addled nightmare after Elias’s diagnosis. The narrative depicts Elias’s spiral into paranoia and addiction and Gilbert’s alternating helplessness and enabling as Elias drags Gilbert into boundarylessness. The story is harrowing in subject. The memoir nevertheless fails artistically, described as breathtakingly poor, surprising because Gilbert’s prior work demonstrated superior instincts and greater talent than most figures in the female-empowerment sphere.
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