Committed - Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

• If a more likeable writer than Gilbert is currently in print, I haven't found him or her
• A meditation on love in its many forms - love of food, language, humanity, God...
• This is a wonderful book, brilliant and personal, filled with sorrow and a great sense of humor
• Elizabeth Gilbert is everything you would love in a tour guide

 At the end of her bestselling memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citzenship who had been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever under any circumstances get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous horrific divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government which, after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at the America border crossing, gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country agaiin.

Committed tells the story of one woman's efforts to make peace with marriage before she entered its estate once more.  Told with Gilbert's trademark wit, intelligence and compassion, the book attemptsd to "turn on all the lights" when it comes to matrimony.  In the end, the book becomes a celebration of love.

Join us as we read this captivating book and discuss our thoughts along the way!