All the Way to the River

Love, Loss, and Liberation

De: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrado por: Elizabeth Gilbert

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK

"A delicious mashup of narrative that's by turns harrowing and healing." –People

“Entertaining, insightful, wrenching … punch-to-the-gut powerful.” –The Washington Post

“A blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid, transcendent, and compelling…Gilbert is undoubtedly a force.” —Boston Globe

In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers and listeners to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.

What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?

All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love—or to any other passion, substance, or craving—and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.

©2025 Elizabeth Gilbert (P)2025 Penguin Audio

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“Inspiring account…Gilbert achieves her signature intimacy through a bluntly confessional tone… and an admirable ability to stare darkness in the face without losing hope. Readers struggling with addiction or seeking a path through heartbreak will find invaluable wisdom in these pages.” – Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“Gilbert rips open her life to share all the painful moments and grief … in a story of despair and courage that … must have been unimaginable to write… Fans of her more lighthearted memoir and novels may be shocked by this book’s intensity, but it’s a brave story with an ultimately hopeful outcome. Anyone who has faced addiction—or loved someone who has—will recognize and be moved by Gilbert’s journey.” – Booklist, Starred Review

“The author of the world’s most famous memoir returns to the form to tell the story of a great love….A worthy addition to the literature of addiction and recovery, charming and harrowing by turns.” – Kirkus

“A loving tribute to Elias, an unfiltered descent into substance abuse, and an intimate look at Gilbert’s hard fought road to recovery.” – TIME

RECOGNIZING my OWN addiction

I began this book, intrigued, and believing that it would be a hard story to witness, but loving Liz Gilbert, it was a no-brainer for me. As I listened to her soothing voice, page after page, I became profoundly aware that she was speaking to me! I have never confronted my own relationship, addictions, I have never been fully aware that I even had any. I believe this book has set me on a new path and possibly changed the trajectory of my life.!! 10 out of 10 recommend⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Beautifully Written. Beautiful Journey

People will attack Gilbert for the content of this book, questioning the integrity of writing about her wife’s life and death. But this book is so much more than that. This book is honest and true and everything people need to hear right now. My hope is that I can forget this so I can read it again for the first time. But I suspect that will be a difficult task.

Truth

I loved every second of her inspiring story, insanity, and complete understanding of what sobriety means. We are the chosen few. Who knew the worst parts of our lives can become the most important basis of our truth. Thank you for making me understand God will ALWAYS give you back the years that the locusts took away!! God bless you and Pepita!

One of the most prolific books I have ever read

It is her accountability, her vulnerability, her raw, honest truth, and her beautiful poetic words that make this the best book I have ever read

Amazing Read.

This is the best book I’ve read in a while. Elizabeth is so honest.. so raw. It’s beautifully written. A must read.

It’s okay!

It’s a bit too therapy speak for me…….. but it’s good. It’s just not my favorite.

Raw, Real, Cathartic. Everything I needed.

This was a fantastic book. The first I've finished in quite a few years now. and the first I've ever listened to on Audible. Elizabeth Gilbert truly touched my soul with this book, as she writes on sex and love addiction, as well as the many different cunning and baffling manifestations addiction can present itself as. All The Way To The River was a powerful story, not only about love (although I very much enjoyed hearing about her journey with Rayya), but also about grief, finding yourself, healing, God, building healthy relationships, and what unhealthy ones might look like. This book might make you question some things in life. And that is what I truly needed, as I came to the realization that I may be suffering from the same symptoms she was. I am grateful for her writing of this memoir, and even more grateful for the tough situations in life that brought me to read this book to begin with. Really an incredibly written work of art.

Beautiful tragic and honest story

Loved this love story because it was honest and real. Relationships help us to grow and love deeply if we let them.

Yup that good

Couldn’t stop listening until it was over and then I was so bummed once it was.

The recovery I truly appreciated the boom

Love the story and the recovery of relationships, rediscovery self and renewal. The work invoked and the courage it takes to save one’s life.