Why desire is just as important as consent when it comes to female sexuality.In this moving conversation, Elizabeth inspires us to hold life more loosely, be lighter with our choices, and ultimately treat every setback as a creative challenge. Like her other monster hits, Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and The Signature of All Things - it’s a rollercoaster of truth and delight. Set in the 1940’s New York theater scene, City of Girls tackles the antiquated idea of a ‘ruined woman.’ It sets forth a new narrative, celebrating the power of female desire and love. "I want this book to go down like a tray of champagne cocktails,” she says. It’s glittering, hot, funny, and drenched in pleasure - and not at all the story you’d expect to come out of someone who’d just lost the love of her life. “How am I going to create safety and the feeling of being seen in a Rayya-less world? Interesting challenge.”Ĭity of Girls is her response. “What am I going to do now?” Liz asked herself. She wrote her brilliant new novel, City of Girls, while caring for the love of her life, Rayya, who passed from pancreatic and liver cancer in early January 2018. What does it take to move through soul-shattering grief? Can your creativity expand and flourish not in spite of but because of your most painful experiences?Įlizabeth Gilbert’s answer is a resounding YES.
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