Eat, Pray and Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything that a modern American woman is supposed to want, husband, country home, successful career, but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she felt consumed by panic and confusion. The book tells the story of how she left behind all those outward signs of success and what she found in its place. Following a divorce and a crushing depression , Gilbert set out to examine three different parts of her nature, set against the backdrop of three different cultures, pleasure in Italy, devotion in India and on the Indonesian island of Bali, a balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence.