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From the best-selling writer of The Vagina Monologues and one of Newsweek's 150 Women Who Transformed the globe, a visionary memoir of parting and connection - to your body, the self applied, and the world Playwright, writer, and activist Eve Ensler has dedicated her life to the female body - how to discuss it, how to safeguard and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body - a disconnection brought on by her father's erotic abuse and her mother's remoteness. "Because I did so not, cannot inhabit my own body or the planet earth," she creates, "I could not feel or know their pain." But Ensler is surprised out of her distance. While employed in the Congo, she is shattered to face the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is identified as having uterine cancer, and through weeks of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become above all a body - pricked, punctured, slash, scanned. It really is then that distance is erased. As she links her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life drive to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, totally - and gratefully - joined to your body of the world. Unflinching, large, and motivating, Ensler message or calls on us all to embody our link with and responsibility for the world.
