The only thing wrong with this readable, funny memoir of a magazine writer's yearlong travels across the world in search of pleasure and balance is that it seems so much like a Jennifer Aniston movie. Like Jen, Liz is a plucky blond American woman in her thirties with no children and no major money worries. As the book opens, she is going through a really bad divorce and subsequent stormy rebound love affair. Awash in tears in the middle of the night on the floor of the bathroom, she begins to pray for guidance, "you know -- like, to God." God answers. He tells her to go back to bed. I started seeing the Star headlines: "Jen's New Faith!" "What Really Happened at the Ashram!" "Jen's Brazilian Sugar Daddy -- Exclusive Photos!" Please understand that Gilbert, whose earlier nonfiction book, The Last American Man, portrayed a contemporary frontiersman, is serious about her quest. But because she never leaves her self-deprecating humor at home, her journey out of depression and toward belief lacks a certain gravitas. The book is composed of 108 short chapters (based on the beads in a traditional Indian japa mala prayer necklace) that often come across as scenes in a movie. And however sad she feels or however deeply she experiences something, she can't seem to avoid dressing up her feelings in prose that can get too cute and too trite. On the other hand, she convinced me that she acquired more wisdom than most young American seekers -- and did it without peyote buttons or other classic hippie medicines. When Gilbert determines that she requires a year of healing, her first stop is Italy, because she feels she needs to immerse herself in a language and culture that worships pleasure and beauty. This sets the stage for a "Jen's Romp in Rome," where she studies Italian and, with newfound friends, searches for the best pizza in the world......

这本可读、有趣的回忆录讲述了一位杂志作家为寻找快乐和平衡而在世界各地进行的为期一年的旅行，唯一的问题是它看起来太像一部珍妮弗-安妮斯顿的电影。和詹一样，丽兹是一个三十多岁的金发碧眼的美国女人，没有孩子，也没有重大的金钱问题。在书的开头，她正在经历一场非常糟糕的离婚和随后暴风雨般的反弹爱情。半夜里，她在浴室的地板上泪流满面，开始祈求指引，"你知道--比如，向上帝祈求"。上帝回答说。他告诉她回到床上去。我开始看到星报的头条。"珍的新信仰！" "在修行院里到底发生了什么！" "珍的巴西糖爸爸--独家照片！" 请理解吉尔伯特，他早期的非小说类书籍《最后的美国人》描绘了一个当代的边疆人，她对自己的追求是认真的。但是，由于她从不把自嘲的幽默留在家里，她走出抑郁症和走向信仰的旅程缺乏某种庄重感。这本书由108个短章组成（根据印度传统japa mala祈祷项链中的珠子），常常像电影中的场景一样出现。而且，无论她的感受多么悲伤，无论她对某件事情的体验多么深刻，她似乎都无法避免用散文来装扮她的感受，这可能会变得太可爱、太老套。另一方面，她让我相信，她比大多数年轻的美国追求者获得了更多的智慧--而且是在没有佩奥特钮扣或其他经典的嬉皮士药物的情况下。当吉尔伯特确定她需要一年的治疗时，她的第一站是意大利，因为她觉得她需要沉浸在一种崇拜快乐和美丽的语言和文化中。这为 "珍的罗马之旅 "创造了条件，她在那里学习意大利语，并与新认识的朋友一起寻找世界上最好的比萨饼......。

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