In vitro. English

In vitro : on longing and transformation / Isabel Zapata ; translated by Robin Myers.

First English-language edition.

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2023.

©2023

149 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

"First English-language edition published in 2023. First published by Almadía as In Vitro, © 2021"-- title page verso.

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Zapata, Isabel, 1984- In vitro First English-language edition. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2023

English

May 31, 2023