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By Elizabeth Gilbert
This is the second in an irregular series of reviews of books that are likely to appeal to or particularly relate to the Rappahannock reader.
Eat, Pray, Loveoffers the reader “One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia.” Elizabeth Gilbert, previously nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award and National Book Award, takes us on a one-year tour across the world in this memoir. The metaphor for the book’s organization is a japa malas, a string of 108 beads used for prayerful meditation by devout Hindus and Buddhists. The book thus has 108 chapters, usually three to four pages long, which facilitates and even invites intermittent reading; a section at the doctor’s office, another bit while waiting for the pasta to boil. The number 108 is a three-digit perfect multiple of three with components adding to three times three, and Ms. Gilbert also uses this balanced three to reflect her journey to three countries to achieve her own life balance. Don’t worry; most of the book does not pursue these various numerological connections. Still, she reports on her travels with heightened
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