Giveaway: Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert
1 lucky winner will receive a copy of Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert, newly released in paperback! The giveaway is open to US and Canada residents.
About Committed
Committed begins where Gilbert’s # 1 New York Times bestseller Eat, Pray, Love ended—just after she fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who’d been living in Bali when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were skittish divorce survivors.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the U.S. government, which—after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at an American border crossing—gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again.
Having been effectively sentenced to wed, Elizabeth and Felipe spent the next ten months wandering haphazardly across Asia, traveling with limited resources and waiting for word from their immigration lawyer as their case languished in bureaucratic uncertainty. Gilbert used this time to ponder the subject of romantic commitment, interviewing everyone from housewives in Vietnam and Thailand to family members and friends, and looking closely at how the institution of marriage has evolved to reflect our social needs and how it is so often intertwined with religion, politics, class, and money.
Committed tells the story of one woman’s efforts to make peace with marriage before she enters its estate once more. Told with Gilbert’s trademark wit, intelligence, and compassion, it frankly discusses issues of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, tradition, economic realities, divorce risks, and social expectations. Myths are debunked; fears are unthreaded; historical perspective is found; and romantic fantasies are ultimately exchanged for vital emotional compromises. In the end, Gilbert’s book is a clear-eyed celebration of the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.
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This sounds SO GOOD!!! I haven’t read Eat, Pray, Love yet but I have many friends who have and they all just adored it. I watched an interview online with Elizabeth Gilbert in which she spoke of this book and how having a successful marriage (which she didn’t have the first time around) takes a whole lot more than love. While I have always known this (and live it as I am married and being happily married takes a lot of work) I never really thought about it before. When I got married I jumped in head first without really thinking of the political, religious, monetary, etc. concerns that would pop up. I just knew I was in love
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