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Elizabeth Gilbert

The author of this memoir of travels to Italy, India, and Indonesia, this person is a New York writer struggling to recover from a contentious divorce, a failed love affair, and a bout of severe, near-suicidal depression.

Ketut Liyer

A ninth-generation Balinese medicine man, this person looks like Star Wars' Jedi Master Yoda.

Wayan Nuriyasih and Tutti

After being hit by a bus and thrown into a ditch during the third leg of her travels, the author visits this person in Ubud, Bali.

A pigtailed, skinny cherry bomb of a girl, this person is not a typical Balinese child.

Armenia

A gorgeous, glamorous Brazilian, who formerly uses pretty power to calm Central American wars for the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees and currently heads Novica, a multinational business marketing indigenous art on the Internet, this person invites others to a fellow expatriate's party in Ubud...

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