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Elizabeth Gilbert does these reluctant wives one better. The author of Eat, Pray, Love returns with Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (Viking; 285 pages), in which she is a vehemently wary second-time bride, due to be dragged down the aisle by Uncle Sam's immigration henchmen, who will otherwise toss her beloved, Brazilian-born "Felipe," as she calls the older man she met in the last section of EPL, out of the U.S. for good. They hadn't planned to marry. Like Gilbert, Felipe had endured a hard divorce, and they were content to be "lifers" together...
...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...
...funeral arrangements, but to keep talking about how much they miss the people who have passed away. "We used to believe that closure is what we needed to move on," says Horsley. But as her colleague Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer stresses, "Closure is for bank accounts, not for love accounts." (See five Facebook no-nos for divorcing couples...
Szalavitz is co-author, with Dr. Bruce Perry, of the forthcoming Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential and Endangered...
Were you nervous about following up Eat, Pray, Love? I think it would be totally insane of me to go into this with any hope or expectation that it would do as well as Eat, Pray, Love. There's almost a relief in knowing that it really almost can't. I think other people have really high expectations for what they want this to be, and I hope they're not disappointed...