7/4/2023 0 Comments Eat pray love authorThen, shortly after Elias' death, Gilbert felt compelled to dive back into "City of Girls" - "I felt like I got a message from the mothership, saying that the best thing I could possibly do was write this book. She had begun research on "City of Girls" before Elias' illness, but after the diagnosis "couldn't imagine ever caring about this novel again." The problems of New York City showgirls seemed trivial, and Gilbert fully expected to never resume work on the book. You might expect someone famous for exploring her own life through memoir to process the aftermath of loss by writing nonfiction - and it's what Gilbert herself expected. Early last year, Gilbert's romantic partner and longtime best friend, Rayya Elias, died of cancer at the age of 57. "City of Girls" is set in a carelessly glamorous 1940s Manhattan world of showgirls, musicals, ratty theater seats, flirty rayon dresses and youthful exuberance - it's a book whose very lightheartedness pulled her out of deep personal grief. She's walking down a New York street during an animated telephone interview last week, talking about her latest novel. "It saved me," says author Elizabeth Gilbert, best known for the best-selling 2006 memoir "Eat, Pray, Love."
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