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In Vitro

On Longing and Transformation

Isabel Zapata Robin Myers

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English
Coffee House Press
14 September 2023
A meditation on in vitro fertilization that expands and complicates the stories we tell about pregnancy.

Medical interventions become an exercise in patience, desire, and delirium in this intimate account of bodily transformation and disruption. In candid, graceful prose, Isabel Zapata gives voice to the strangeness and complexities of conception and motherhood that are rarely discussed publicly. Zapata frankly addresses the misogyny she experienced during fertility treatments, explores the force of grief in imagining possible futures, and confronts the societal expectations around maternity. In the tradition of Rivka Galchen's Little Labors and Sarah Manguso's Ongoingness, In Vitro draws from diary and essay forms to create a new kind of literary companion and open up space for nuanced conversations about pregnancy.
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Imprint:   Coffee House Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 127mm, 
ISBN:   9781566896757
ISBN 10:   1566896754
Pages:   160
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Isabel Zapata is a Mexico Cityborn writer and editor. She is the author of the poetry book Una ballena es un pas and the bilingual essay collection Alberca vaca / Empty Pool (trans. Robin Myers). Recent work has appeared in English translation in World Literature Today, Waxwing, The Common, and Words Without Borders. She is a cofounder and publisher at Ediciones Antlope. Robin Myers is a Mexico Citybased poet and translator. Her translations include Copy by Dolores Dorantes (Wave Books), The Dream of Every Cell by Maricela Guerrero (Cardboard House Press), The Book of Explanations by Tedi Lpez Mills (Deep Vellum Publishing), Cars on Fire by Mnica Ramn Ros (Open Letter Books), and The Restless Dead by Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press).

Reviews for In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation

From its first sentences, I was riveted to In Vitro. Isabel Zapata has an effortlessly engaging style, at once casual and thrillingly deep. Her skill at playing with language, chronology, and genre will leave her readers feeling spellbound, affirmed, and, most of all, free. This is a profoundly liberatory book. -Emily Gould Praise for Isabel Zapata Isabel Zapata writes with a fluidity that can only come from wisdom. Sometimes it feels like we're listening to her speak more than reading her on the page; it even feels like we can speak back. -Alejandro Zambra


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