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