{"product_id":"2940171867638","title":"In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Vagina Monologues\u003c\/i\u003e and one of \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e's 150 Women Who Changed the World, a visionary memoir of separation and connectionamp;mdash;to the body, the self, and the world\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlaywright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female bodyamp;mdash;how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spent much of her life disassociated from her own bodyamp;mdash;a disconnection brought on by her father's sexual abuse and her mother's remoteness. \"Because I did not, could not inhabit my body or the Earth,\" she writes, \"I could not feel or know their pain.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Ensler is shocked out of her distance. While 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 treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a bodyamp;mdash;pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all 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 finally, fullyamp;mdash;and gratefullyamp;mdash;joined to the body of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnflinching and inspiring, Ensler's \u003ci\u003eIn the Body of the World\u003c\/i\u003e calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Macmillan Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179518083312,"sku":"2940171867638","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940171867638_p0.jpg?v=1763746630","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940171867638","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}