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Excerpt from article in the New Yorker about Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir: In time, Gilbert becomes a twisted bedside nurse, tying off the arms of a “venomous junkie” who has already lived nine months longer than the doctors thought she would. And yet this off-kilter enabler remains Elizabeth Gilbert, a woman who could, in under thirty seconds, locate transcendent human insight in a nuclear-waste dump. She tells herself, “Rayya is my most beautiful story.” Then, losing the faith, she decides to murder Rayya, literally, by switching her morphine pills with sleeping pills and covering her in fentanyl patches—a plot that fails only because Rayya somewhat demonically cottons on to the plan and thwarts it. Gilbert realizes that she has hit rock bottom, that she is a sex-and-love addict—an addict all around, actually. This becomes the organizing principle and revelation of the book: Gilbert’s journey with Rayya is merely an extreme version of a dynamic that “all of us” can relate to, Gilbert tells her readers, because, like addicts, we have all grasped desperately at “relief from the sting of life.” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/all-the-way-to-the-river-love-loss-and-liberation-elizabeth-gilbert-book-review
aug 27, 2025, 6:10 am • 4 1

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Kelly Ellis @justkelly.bsky.social

Ohhhhh wow ok that wasn’t in the excerpt Andrea posted but holy shit

aug 27, 2025, 6:13 am • 3 0 • view
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beautifulrobot @beautifulrobot.bsky.social

it’s not in that article, i was equally confused

aug 27, 2025, 7:40 am • 2 0 • view
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Destiny Sugarbuns @destinysugarbuns.bsky.social

same, I thought everyone must be pissed that the live-laugh-love lady turned out to to be using hard drugs or something

aug 27, 2025, 1:51 pm • 2 0 • view