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    Elizabeth Gilbert halts release of a new book after outcry over its Russian setting

    The Snow Forest by the author of Eat, Pray, Love was set to be released in February 2024, exactly two years after Russia invaded Ukraine. The backlash included hundreds of negative GoodReads reviews.
    by Jonathan Franklin Jun 12, 2023 2 minutes

    Elizabeth Gilbert, the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love, announced that she is halting the release of her next book following a "massive" backlash about its setting in Russia.

    In a posted to Twitter on Monday, Gilbert said her upcoming novel, , will be removed from theis still at war with Russia since its invasion in February 2022.

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