Eat, Pray, Love is a memoir of Elizabeth Gilbert’s experiences and relationships on a one-year journey across the world in the pursuit of pleasure, spiritual devotion, and the balance between the two. After her divorce and a failed relationship that followed, Liz embarked on a three-nation journey, with plans to spend four months each in Italy, where she intended to pursue her love of food and language; in India, where she would study at her guru’s ashram, and on the island of Bali in Indonesia, where she hoped to find and maintain balance in her life.