In the Body of the World
eBook - ePub

In the Body of the World

A Memoir of Cancer and Connection

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

In the Body of the World

A Memoir of Cancer and Connection

About this book

The bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues shares her "extraordinarily riveting, graphic story of survival" ( Publishers Weekly).
In this extraordinary and evocative memoir, playwright, author, and activist V, formerly Eve Ensler, traces many paths of reconnection: with her body, after she is diagnosed with cancer; with the people of the world, in the face of injustice and abuse; and with the earth, victim of mass exploitation.
Working in the Congo, V meets survivors of horrific rape and violence and sees firsthand how these women are creating hope and possibility out of horror. Just as she is about to help open a revolutionary leadership center called City of Joy, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, resulting in months of difficult treatment. Through her experience, V is forced to become first and foremost a body—pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. As she recovers from her illness, V is able to let go of everything that doesn't matter and find strength in what does.
In the Body of the World is a haunting, revelatory work that calls on us to reestablish our connection to our bodies, to the world, and to those around us.
Praise for In the Body of the World
"Warm, funny, furious, and astute, as well as poetic, passionate, and heroic, Ensler harnesses all that she lost and learned to articulate a galvanizing vision of the essence of life: 'The only salvation is kindness.' . . . [A] scorching and enlightening memoir." — Booklist (starred review)
"A necessary book to read for its fierce, passionate commitment to making the world a safe place for women." — The Boston Globe

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Scans
  7. Divided
  8. The Beginning of the End, or In Your Liver
  9. Dr. Deb, or Congocancer
  10. Somnolence
  11. Cancer Town
  12. Dr. Handsome
  13. What We Don’t Know Going into Surgery
  14. This Is Where You Will Cross the Uji River
  15. Two Questions
  16. Uterus = Hysteria
  17. Falling, or Congo Stigmata
  18. Lu
  19. Here’s What’s Gone
  20. The Stoma
  21. How’d I Get It?
  22. Circumambulating
  23. Ice Chips
  24. Patient
  25. The Rupture/The Gulf Spill
  26. Becoming Someone Else
  27. Beware of Getting the Best
  28. Stages/5.2B
  29. Infusion Suite
  30. Arts and Crafts
  31. The Room with a Tree
  32. A Buzz Cut
  33. Getting Port
  34. The Chemo Isn’t for You
  35. Tara, Kali, and Sue
  36. Crowd Chemo
  37. The Obstruction, or How Tree Saved Me
  38. I Was That Girl Who Was Supposed to Be Dead, or How Pot Saved Me Later
  39. Riding the Lion
  40. Chemo Day Five
  41. On the Couch Next to Me
  42. I Love Your Hair, or The Last Time I Saw My Mother
  43. It Was a Beach, I Think
  44. Shit
  45. Rada
  46. Death and Tami Taylor
  47. A Burning Meditation on Love
  48. My Mother Dies
  49. De-Ported
  50. Live by the Vagina, Die by the Vagina
  51. Farting for Cindy
  52. It Wasn’t a Foreboding
  53. Congo Incontinent
  54. Leaking
  55. She Will Live
  56. Sue
  57. Joy
  58. Mother
  59. Second Wind
  60. Acknowledgments
  61. Also by Eve Ensler
  62. About the Author
  63. Copyright