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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...
...whereas in Eat, Pray, Love the journey was what mattered, the end of Committed is, as of page 18, a foregone conclusion. As Gilbert puts it, she and her lover are "sentenced to marry." This makes the book a supreme act of navel-gazing, even for a memoir. While the legal complexities are being worked out, the two kill time by traveling together. Along the way, Gilbert, ever the good journalist, gathers string on marriage and love from various sources, including the humble Hmong women of North Vietnam, seagulls, a humble frog-farming family in Laos and her humble...
...author Elizabeth Gilbert chronicled her rocky divorce and subsequent journey around the world in the wildly popular memoir Eat, Pray, Love - a book that has sold millions of copies, is being made into a movie starring Julia Roberts and ended with Gilbert falling in love with a Brazilian man whom she later married. Now, after spending three years researching the institution of marriage - and scrapping her first, 500-page draft - Gilbert has published Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. She spoke with TIME about the real cost of getting married young, her feelings on prenuptial agreements and what same...
...dalliance, rebuked him several times during interviews and moved out of the governor's residence along with the couple's four children. It's a safe bet that plenty more publicity will attend her next move. Sanford, who drew plaudits for her handling of the scandal and whose memoir is slated for publication next spring, was named this month by Barbara Walters as one of 2009's 10 most fascinating people. (Read "Jenny Sanford: The Savviest Spurned Woman in History...
...memoir about coping with her husband's affair, Staying True, is set to be released in April...