Ayo’s Reviews > All the Way to the River > Status Update

I like so many things about this book.

I also find a lot of how and why it’s written cringey, unnecessary, premature,and yes - a little heroic.

Hey!Gilbert is a damn good writer. No doubt about that.

We already know a lot about codependency from writers like Melody Beattie. What Gilbert does in All the Way to the River is cement these lessons with lived experience.

Is it worth a whole book? I’m not sure.

“ . . . And what if everything that was offered is simply this: whatever you see before you right now, that is what’s yours - a world called ‘enough’”

❤️

Say whatever you want about Gilbert, one thing is fact: this woman can WRITE!!! 🔥🔥🔥

“Addicts don’t do well when they loose contact with an higher power. . . “

❤️

“Multiple studies have shown that heterosexual women who are married and have children do not live as long as women who are single and childless. . .

They also earn less money than their single counterparts while doing more unpaid works than their partners do . . .

On the other hand . . . Married men strongly outperform single men

The institution of marriage benefits men far more than women.“

🥰🎯

“Raya was addicted to drugs.

I was addicted to people.”

My jaw is literally on the floor y’all 😦