Word: journeying
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...whereas in Eat, Pray, Love the journey was what mattered, the end of Committed is, as of page 18, a foregone conclusion. As Gilbert puts it, she and her lover are "sentenced to marry." This makes the book a supreme act of navel-gazing, even for a memoir. While the legal complexities are being worked out, the two kill time by traveling together. Along the way, Gilbert, ever the good journalist, gathers string on marriage and love from various sources, including the humble Hmong women of North Vietnam, seagulls, a humble frog-farming family in Laos and her humble...
...author Elizabeth Gilbert chronicled her rocky divorce and subsequent journey around the world in the wildly popular memoir Eat, Pray, Love - a book that has sold millions of copies, is being made into a movie starring Julia Roberts and ended with Gilbert falling in love with a Brazilian man whom she later married. Now, after spending three years researching the institution of marriage - and scrapping her first, 500-page draft - Gilbert has published Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. She spoke with TIME about the real cost of getting married young, her feelings on prenuptial agreements and what same...
Pitch: An apocalyptic journey...
...make ends meet; the government - though relatively welcoming, they say - simply can't help them. "We thought that Yemen would be better than Somalia. But it's not," says Sofia Abdel Samat, 20, who lost her younger sister to the sea when the two tried to make the journey less than a month ago. "There is no work here, there is nothing...
Many others have, in the past, tried to journey on to the more lucrative promise of menial labor in neighboring Saudi Arabia. But an intensifying war on Yemen's Saudi border in recent months has made that option increasingly difficult. "Somalis used to smuggle themselves into Saudi Arabia," says Zakaria Omar, a Somali counselor for the international aid agency Doctors Without Borders. "But now there are a lot of armies on the border. People are searching for a better life here. When they arrive, they find the opposite of what they heard. But they have no choice - they have...