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After the mega success of her travel memoir, “Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert spent the last two decades as a wholesome self-help guru. But she’s been living a much darker, messier truth.

In “All The Way To The River,” Gilbert recounts leaving the husband she met in “Eat, Pray, Love” for her best friend Rayya Elias when Elias is diagnosed with terminal cancer. But their terminal honeymoon of sex and karaoke turns ugly as Elias’s last days are marked with cocaine binges, codependency and a thwarted mercy killing.

Gilbert brings “All The Way To The River,” also this month’s Oprah’s Book Club pick, to the Tampa Theatre next week for a live onstage discussion with Oxford Exchange.

Tickets to see Elizabeth Gilbert live at Tampa Theatre on Tuesday, Sept. 23 are $46 and include a pre-signed hardback copy of “All The Way To The River.”