The New York Times Book Review quoted on the back of eat pray love says, "If a more likable writer than Gilbert is currently in print, I haven't found him or her..." I agree. Her witty self deprecating style is very winsome.
She also strikes deep truth. For example toward the end of the book she recounts going to an island in Indonesia to meditate. She tries to surface all of her sorrow, anger and shame. As she does this she accepts what she finds and makes peace with it. Her point is that we cannot love ourselves unless we can accept the worst of ourselves. Once we have made peace with the worst in us we can begin to love ourselves and then have the capacity to love others.
I look forward to her next book, Weddings and Evictions due out this year.
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