Reckoning by V

Reckoning by V

A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season

The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues-political, personal, profound, and more than forty years in the making.

The newest book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), Reckoning invites you to travel the journey of a writer's and activist's life and process over forty years, representing both the core of ideas that have become global movements and the methods through which V survived abuse and self-hatred. Seamlessly moving from the internal to the external, the personal to the political, Reckoning is a moving and inspiring work of prose, poetry, dreams, letters, and essays drawn from V's lifelong journals that takes readers from Berlin to Oklahoma to the Congo, from climate disaster, homelessness, and activism to family.

Unflinching, intimate, introspective, courageous, Reckoning explores ways to create an unstoppable force for change, to love and survive love, to hold people and states accountable, to reckon with demons and honor the dead, to reclaim the body, and to see oneself as connected to a greater purpose. It reimagines what seems fixed and intractable, providing a path to understand one's unique experience as deeply rooted in the world, to break through one's own boundaries, and to write oneself into freedom.

Eve Ensler is an award-winning playwright and international bestselling author whose writings include The Vagina Monologues, The Good Body, Insecure at Last, and I Am an Emotional Creature, which has now been adapted for the stage as Emotional Creature. She founded V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls that has raised over $90 million for local organizations and activists and inspired the global action One Billion Rising. Ensler splits his time between France and New York City.