The Apology

The Apology by V

From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues--a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement.

A triumph of artistry and empathy. --Naomi Klein

A crucial step forward . . . This is an urgently needed book right now. --Jane Fonda

Unflinching candor . . . immeasurable grace. --Anita Hill

Courageous, transformative, and yes--healing. --Anne Lamott

Unflinchingly increases our understanding of the human experience. --Michael Cunningham

The Apology] will change how all of us think about our souls. --Johann Hari

Shatteringly brilliant. --The Times

The geometry of toxic masculinity is contained within these pages. --Marc Maron

Like millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology. Sexually and physically abused by her father, Eve has struggled her whole life from this betrayal, longing for an honest reckoning from a man who is long dead. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, by her, for her, to her. The Apology, written by Eve from her father's point of view in the words she longed to hear, attempts to transform the abuse she suffered with unflinching truthfulness, compassion, and an expansive vision for the future.

Through The Apology Eve has set out to provide a new way for herself and a possible road for others, so that survivors of abuse may finally envision how to be free. She grapples with questions she has sought answers to since she first realized the impact of her father's abuse on her life: How do we offer a doorway rather than a locked cell? How do we move from humiliation to revelation, from curtailing behavior to changing it, from condemning perpetrators to calling them to reckoning? What will it take for abusers to genuinely apologize?

Remarkable and original, The Apology is an acutely transformational look at how, from the wounds of sexual abuse, we can begin to re-emerge and heal. It is revolutionary, asking everything of each of us: courage, honesty, and forgiveness.

Eve Ensler is an internationally bestselling author and Tony Award-winning playwright whose theatrical works include the Obie Award-winning The Vagina Monologues, as well as Necessary Targets, The Good Body, and Emotional Creature. She is the author of the political memoir Insecure at Last, the New York Times bestseller I Am an Emotional Creature, and a critically acclaimed memoir, In the Body of the World, which she has adapted for the stage and will premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in January 2018. Ensler is the founder of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls that has raised more than $100 million for local groups and activists. She is also the founder of One Billion Rising, the biggest global mass action campaign to end violence against women in human history, which is active in more than two hundred countries, and the co-founder of the City of Joy, the revolutionary leadership center for survivors of gender violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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ISBN 13	9781635575118
ISBN 10	1635575117
Title	The Apology
Author	V
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Year published	2023-11-09
Number of pages	128
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