I originally picked up this book because a friend recommended it to me. I read the description of the book and wasn't overly intrigued by thought it might be interesting. 
 I'm going to say right off the bat that this book is not my cup of tea. I've never read a book I couldn't get through and I'm going to actually tell you I didn't finish it. I only got about halfway through the book. Right from the beginning I knew I wasn't going to be able get through the book because I had no sympathy at all for this woman. People all over the world have hard lives and real problems. Some even suffer from depression which seems to be the case for this woman. 
 While the author does know how to write, the entire portion of the book I read, seems like just a elaborate excuse to write a book. The author tells us nothing about her marriage other than she wanted it to end and she subtly implies that her husband could have been at least mentally abusive and if this is the case then I'm glad she got out of the marriage. But to me, it doesn't flow. If he was at all abusive you would think at the point where she filed for divorce she wouldn't act the part of the martyr. You think she would fight. Instead, she acts like the entire issue was her fault and seems to be quickly jumping into another relationship. This felt like adultery to me. 
 So it isn't very long before things start going her way after a very spiritual (mocking) moment of who will sign my divorce decree. I found that moment about as imaginary as her belief that God is somehow at the bottom of a gelato. Then she somehow falls into $200,000 book advance so she can take off to Italy, India and Indonesia to "find God." 
 The people she encounters seem made up and the situations and moments that actually have an impact seem to be the most pointless moments of existence. To me it seems like one woman's excuse to flee from being a responsible member of society. 
 No one actually talks like the Texan she meets in India and some of the people she tells us are actually in India... you have to wonder how they actually made it there what with the price of travel. 
 Throughout the parts of this book I did manage to choke down, it felt like her journey to find God was really more about her journey to find some kind of approval or feel like everything she experienced was good and somehow a blessing all the while not really seeking God in any manner that mattered. While she does go to India for meditation she doesn't actually go towards anything spiritual. She didn't crack opened a Bible or any other spiritual text. She didn't step foot in a church or even go to a holy place in some attempt to actually seek God. Instead, she put her effort into people who claim to have some divine connection without actually having any sort of spiritual meeting with her. Meditating as she did is not praying. What she did was talk to herself. You can actually meditate and speak with God and yet she couldn't manage that. 
 While I haven't finished the book I do know that she ends up meeting a man and "falling in love." What happened to the idea of being free of relationships because she couldn't handle them? It seems to me that she is trading one thing for another because she grew bored with her life. I wonder how many woman would love to throw off everything and just travel? Sure we all grow bored. That is why we change. We take on new things. We experience new thing and find joy in new hobbies, friends, etc. 
 Maybe she tried working out a few of her own issues but it seems to me like she's repeating a cycle. I wonder how long it will be before she tells the new husband it is not him, she just doesn't think she should be married. 
 If you like this book... more power to you. Seems like it is a love or hate relationship with this book. You can go either way.