In the Body of the World

Eve Ensler 2013

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
terminal illness memoir cancer activism

Our Take

Ensler was diagnosed with uterine cancer and connected her body's invasion to the violence she had spent decades documenting in other women's bodies. The memoir is visceral — chemo, surgery, Congo — and the parallel between personal and political devastation is not metaphor.

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