All the Way to the River: Oprah's Book Club: Love, Loss, and Liberation

By Elizabeth Gilbert

Book Overview

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK

"A delicious mashup of narrative that's by turns harrowing and healing." -People

"Entertaining, insightful, wrenching ... punch-to-the-gut powerful." -The Washington Post

"A blockbuster: brutally honest, lurid, transcendent, and compelling...Gilbert is undoubtedly a force." --Boston Globe

In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.

What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? 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 a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love--or to any other passion, substance, or craving--and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593540999
• ISBN13: 9780593540992
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

I was disappointed ALL the way to the River.

I'll start by saying 95% of the time the books I get are as they say they are; however this time I wished I'd just waited for a dust cover or even a paper back. The pages were great but the cover which was a dark cranberry in color was covered in greasy fingerprints. I did not care for or expect that. 😏 I haven't read the book yet, because eww.