V (formerly Eve Ensler), RECKONING – in conversation with Elizabeth Lesser

Presented in partnership with Morton Memorial Library

Reckoning is a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season and the work of a lifetime from Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues. V (formerly Eve Ensler) will talk with Elizabeth Lesser about this unflinching, intimate, introspective, courageous, memoir that 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.

“Reckoning is a journey from agonizingly personal to utterly cosmic. No reader will be left unshaken and uninspired.” ―Jane Fonda

V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a Tony Award–winning playwright, author, performer, and activist. Her international phenomenon The Vagina Monologues has been published in 48 languages and performed in more than 140 countries. She is the author of The Apology (now a play set to debut in 2022), the NYT bestseller I Am an Emotional Creature, the highly praised In the Body of the World, and many more. She is the founder of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, and One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries. She is a co-founder of the City of Joy, a revolutionary center for women survivors of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, along with Christine Schuler Deschryver and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege. She is one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Changed the World” and the Guardian’s “100 Most Influential Women.” She lives in New York.

Elizabeth Lesser is the cofounder of Omega Institute and the author of Cassandra Speaks; Marrow; The Seeker’s Guide; and the New York Times bestseller Broken Open. She has given two popular TED talks and is one of Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul 100, a collection of one hundred leaders who are using their voices and talents to elevate humanity.

Books will be available for purchase at this event and a book signing will follow the program.

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