In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection

✍ Scribed by Ensler, Eve

• Book ID: 108296801
• Publisher: Random House of Canada
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 162 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780345813244

✦ Synopsis

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek 's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connection--to the body, the self and the world.

Playwright, author and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to thinking about the female body--how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet, as she recounts in this inspiring and lyrical memoir, she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body--a disconnection first brought on by her father's battering and sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness, and by her later exploits with drugs, alcohol and promiscuous sex. Her body was a machine to be mastered; she lived in her head, estranged from her physical self and from nature. "Because I did not, could not inhabit my body or the earth," she writes, "I could not feel or know their pain."

But Ensler is shocked out of her distance. On a trip to the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the...