Love, Drugs and a Murder Plot

In a raw new memoir, Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert writes about the very dark days before her romantic partner's death

- LIZZ SCHUMER

Losing a Soulmate Gilbert (left, in 2015) met Elias in 2000, but they didn't get romantically involved until 2016.

"If you ever find yourself in a situation where you're plotting to kill yourself or someone else... It's probably a good idea to ask for help." That's one way to sum up Elizabeth Gilbert's revelatory new memoir. But that wouldn't capture the whole of All the Way to the River (out now). It traces how Gilbert, now 56, realized she's a sex and love addict and found her way into Al-Anon.