Eat Pray Love (One Woman's Search for Everything)

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, has a husband, a house, and they're trying for a baby - but she doesn't want any of it. After a bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair, she emerges battered and bewildered, realizing it's time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion, and balance. She travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds; to an ashram in India, where she discovers that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor; and to Bali, where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile. Slowly, happiness begins to creep up on her.