What happens after the book?

If you’ve found yourself wondering what happened to Elizabeth Gilbert after the end of the book, there’s a brief write-up on Two Buttons Warehouse, run by Gilbert and her husband Jose (Examiner.com).

And one more question — having read the book and maybe looked at the article above and the Two Buttons website, do you think Elizabeth Gilbert found what she was looking for?

Thanks for reading Eat, Pray, Love with me. If you liked the book and want to check out similar titles, you may want to try:

Frances Mayes’ A Year in the World

Marlena DeBlasi’s A Thousand Days In Venice

Alice Steinbach’s Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

Last discussion questions for Eat, Pray, Love

Here are a selection of discussion questions for the book from the publisher’s website:

“After imagining a petition to God for divorce, an exhausted Gilbert answers her phone to news that her husband has finally signed. During a moment of quietude before a Roman fountain, she opens her Louise Glück collection to a verse about a fountain, one reminiscent of the Balinese medicine man’s drawing. After struggling to master a 182-verse daily prayer, she succeeds by focusing on her nephew, who suddenly is free from nightmares. Do these incidents of fortuitous timing signal fate? Cosmic unity? Coincidence? “

“Gender roles come up repeatedly in Eat, Pray, Love, be it macho Italian men eating cream puffs after a home team’s soccer loss, or a young Indian’s disdain for the marriage she will be expected to embark upon at age eighteen, or the Balinese healer’s sly approach to male impotence in a society where women are assumed responsible for their childlessness. How relevant is Gilbert’s gender?”

“In what ways is spiritual success similar to other forms of success? How is it different? Can they be so fundamentally different that they’re not comparable?”

“Do you think people are more open to new experiences when they travel? And why?”

Italy? India? Or Indonesia?

Do you have a preference for one part of the book over another, say, Elizabeth Gilbert’s time in Italy versus her time in India or Indonesia? Why or why not?