Praise for Eating & Praying
“I love this book! It’s hilarious and fun and by turns both light and poignant. As someone who knows a lot about Eating and tends to not always get to the Praying part, I found this endlessly relatable.”
— Casey Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of The Wreckage of My Presence
“Eating and Praying is packed with big laughs and bursts of pain that made me want to be in my twenties again, then on a dime reminded me why I’m glad I’m not. A beautiful debut novel from Davis Summers that’s so much more than it seems. It reminds me as a queer person, it’s okay to come out and/or ‘come of age’ whenever it happens.”
— Michael Urie, Emmy-nominated actor and star of Ugly Betty
Eating & Praying
Eating & Praying follows Tyler Morgan who, at twenty-nine years old, is trapped in the stagnancy of his life working as the film industry's most-promising producer.
When his boyfriend of four years leaves him unexpectedly, Tyler interprets what he believes to be a divine sign and quits his job to recreate Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love. After falling in and out of love in Italy, Tyler soon realizes his emotional issues go far deeper than what the trip can fix in addition to draining his savings by the time it comes to "Pray". Tyler is forced to return to his hometown to experience the "Love" portion of his trip in a reconciliation he never dreamed possible.
Eating & Praying explores grief, family, the romance and tragedy of being young and queer in the modern world, and the necessity of making peace with one's past to make sense of the present. .