Elizabeth Gilbert's “All the Way to the River," a memoir that has already stirred up an online conversation, is Oprah Winfrey’s new book club pick.
In Gilbert's book, published this week, the author writes of a consuming love affair with the self-destructive and terminally ill Rayya Elias, a onetime friend for whom the author left her husband. Gilbert already has an influential and well-chronicled history of transformation and telling all — starting with her million-selling phenomenon, “Eat, Pray, Love," a spiritual journey that ends with Gilbert marrying the man (Jose Nunes) she will divorce to be with Elias.
