After Eat, Pray, Love : Fret, Mull, Marry

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love , has a new memoir, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage , that takes her reluctantly to the altar

Photograph for TIME by Martha Camarillo

Author Elizabeth Gilbert

Once upon a time in the annals of women's stories, getting married was the fairy-tale ending. These days, marital ambivalence rules the literary scene. December brought Julie Powell's new memoir, Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession (Little, Brown; 307 pages), in which the Julie & Julia author tells the sad, sordid tale of the recent years she spent butchering pigs, cows and her husband's heart. Meanwhile, in a New York Times Magazine story, writer Elizabeth Weil detailed her efforts to subject her "perfect union" to every kind of therapeutic scrutiny available in Northern California. Her goal of complete marital...

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