The best-selling author behind the zeitgeist novel"Eat, Pray, Love" is withdrawing her latest work after realizing that its fictional location in Russia may be inappropriate given the country'sthat now"is not the time" for her book,"The Snow Forest," to be published. She asked her publisher, Penguin Random House, to withdraw the novel's release in February 2024 — close to the war's second anniversary.
Gilbert's best-selling memoir"Eat, Pray, Love," about finding love and wanderlust in midlife, was made into a 2010 blockbuster starring Julia Roberts. Though it sold millions of copies,saying Gilbert could only embark on her spiritual journey around the world because she had the money to do so. The book, which is no longer available for pre-order on Amazon, is about a group of people in Siberia who"remove themselves from society to resist the Soviet government and try to defend nature against industrialization," Gilbert said in her Twitter video. Readers also took to social media to reach Gilbert and urge her to reconsider publishing the book.