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In 2000, a friend sent Liz Gilbert to see a new hairdresser named Rayya Elias. An intense and unlikely curiosity sparked between these two apparent opposites: Rayya, an East Village woman who lived boldly on her own terms but feared she was a failed artist; Liz, a married people-pleaser with a surprisingly unfettered sense of creativity. Over the years, they became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. Unacknowledged: they were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.
What if the love of your life — and the person you most trusted in the world — became a danger to your sanity and wellbeing? 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 for everyone who has ever been captive to love — or to any other passion, substance, or craving — and who yearns, at long last, for peace and freedom.
My note: I read and enjoyed Eat, Pray, Love, as millions of others did. Profanity in that was quite low compared to the amount in this one. I also thought Committed was interesting, though starting to get a tad too self-involved for my tastes. I had no interest in reading this Oprah book club selection, and I’m glad I didn’t even try, considering the HUGE number of instances of strong profanity.
Rapid Rating: High.
Profanity includes 130 uses of strong language, around 60 instances of moderate profanity, about 40 uses of mild language, and about a dozen instances of the name of Deity in vain. Frequent references to sex and love addiction and drug addiction.
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