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

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Playwright, writer, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body―how to speak about it, how to offer protection to and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own body―a disconnection brought on by her father’s sexual abuse and her mother’s remoteness. “Because I didn’t, 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. Whilst working in the Congo, she is shattered to encounter the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing remedy, she is forced to change into before everything a body―pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that each one distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is in the end, fully―and gratefully―joined to the body of the world.

Unflinching, generous, and inspiring, Ensler’s In the Body of the World calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.

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