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family, eating locally, and savoring the pleasures of food have drawn many to our County as well, as we seek a refuge from the growing stresses of urban and even suburban life. (Gilbert leaves Manhattan for her travels.)
From Italy, Gilbert flies to India, going directly to an ashram where she seeks to simplify her life and fill the void she feels that only a relationship with God can fill. In New York, she had found a guru, an Indian woman whose ashram she now joins for four months to practice yoga, chant, and meditate. She describes the diverse participants in these pursuits, and their stories enrich the memoir. She is seeking God and learning to pray, and her struggles are moving and universal. For the many in the County who practice yoga, this third of the book will appeal in its details about not only the physical but also the spiritual outcomes. And, for all who find peace and solace in prayer, the spiritual hunger that motivates Gilbert will resonate.
In a sense, Gilbert reenters the physical world in Indonesia: Bah, to be specific. Having satisfied both physical and spiritual hunger, she goes to Bah to apprentice herself to a medicine man or holy man who read her palm when she had briefly vis
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