{"product_id":"book-au69","title":"The Good Body","description":"Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation \u003ci\u003eThe Vagina Monologues\u003c\/i\u003e, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve writes, girls were “pretty, perky. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They wore girdles and waist-pinchers… . In recent years good girls join the army. They climb the corporate ladder. They go to the gym… . They wear painful pointy shoes. They don’t eat too much. They … don’t eat at all. They stay perfect. They stay thin. I could never be good.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Good Body \u003c\/i\u003estarts with Eve’s tortured relationship with her own “post-forties” stomach and her skirmishes with everything from Ab Rollers to fad diets and fascistic trainers in an attempt get the “flabby badness” out. As Eve hungrily seeks self-acceptance, she is joined by the voices of women from L.A. to Kabul, whose obsessions are also laid bare: A young Latina candidly critiques her humiliating “spread,” a stubborn layer of fat that she calls “a second pair of thighs.” The wife of a plastic surgeon recounts being systematically reconstructed–inch by inch–by her “perfectionist” husband. An aging magazine executive, still haunted by her mother’s long-ago criticism, describes her desperate pursuit of youth as she relentlessly does sit-ups.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, Eve also introduces us to women who have found a hard-won peace with their bodies: an African mother who celebrates each individual body as signs of nature’s diversity; an Indian woman who transcends “treadmill mania” and delights in her plump cheeks and curves; and a veiled Afghani woman who is willing to risk imprisonment for a taste of ice cream. These are just a few of the inspiring stories woven through Eve’s global journey from obsession to enlightenment. Ultimately, these monologues become a personal wake-up call from Eve to love the “good bodies” we inhabit.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49341146530096,"sku":"BDau69","price":9.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/au69-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776285193","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-au69","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}