All the Way to the River

Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir tells the story of her relationship with Rayya Elias, her best friend of many years, whom she came to recognize as the love of her life just as Rayya was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Gilbert writes with searing honesty about love, addiction, caregiving, and grief. The book is an intense, unguarded account of a bond that upended her life and of loss that reshaped it.