Committed - Libro en Inglés

Committed – Elizabeth Gilbert

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man she met in Bali. Both had been through painful divorces, and they promised each other never to marry again. But fate had other plans. When Felipe was refused entry to the United States, they were told that the only way he could live with Gilbert in America was if they married.

In Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, Gilbert tells the story of the months they spent traveling through Southeast Asia while waiting for the paperwork to come through. Facing a marriage she had not planned, Gilbert decided to try to understand the institution she feared, asking what marriage really is, where it came from and why it matters so much.

Drawing on history, anthropology, sociology and conversations with people she met along the way, including women in a Hmong village in Vietnam, her own family members and friends, Gilbert explores questions about love, commitment, compatibility, infatuation, autonomy, women’s roles, same-sex marriage and the many forms marriage has taken across cultures and centuries. She reflects honestly on her own fears and hopes as she prepares to marry again.

Written with warmth, humor and curiosity, the book blends personal memoir with a wide-ranging exploration of one of humanity’s oldest institutions.

Thoughtful and engaging, Committed is a rewarding read for fans of Eat, Pray, Love and for anyone who has wondered about the meaning of marriage, commitment and love, whether married, single or somewhere in between.