Eat Pray Love's author is canceling the release of her new, Russia-set novel
shared to her Instagram account, Gilbert says that she has “received an enormous, massive outpouring of reactions and responses from my Ukrainian readers expressing anger, sorrow, disappointment and pain about the fact that I would choose to release a book into the world right now, any book, no matter what the subject of it is, that is set in Russia.”She continues: “I want to say that I have heard these messages and read these messages and I respect them.
I’m making a course correction and I’m removing the book from its publication schedule. It is not the time for this book to be published.” In the video’s caption, Gilbert stated that readers who purchasedGilbert isn’t the first author to alter her plans in the nearly 500 days since Russia launched a
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