In Vitro

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On Longing and Transformation

By Isabel Zapata

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In Vitro by Isabel Zapata is an intimate meditation on in vitro fertilization, exploring the complexities and disruptions of bodily transformation during conception and motherhood. Through candid and graceful prose, Zapata addresses the misogyny faced during fertility treatments and the grief involved in imagining future possibilities. Blending diary and essay forms, the book opens a nuanced conversation about pregnancy and challenges societal expectations surrounding maternity, drawing comparisons to works by Rivka Galchen and Sarah Manguso.
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In Vitro is ideal for readers interested in personal essays and memoirs tackling fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood from a philosophical and intimate perspective. It will resonate with those seeking thoughtful reflections on medical intervention in family formation and the societal pressures surrounding maternity.

"First published by Almadâia as In Vitro, Ã 2021"--Title page verso.

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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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TODAY included In Vitro in their "Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2023" list. Arianna Rebolini of Vulture praised it as "an insightful personal history but also a brilliant philosophical text about the very nature of sacrifice and autonomy." Lupita Aquino at TODAY highlighted the book's illumination of pregnancy aspects rarely discussed publicly. Publishers Weekly described Zapata's lyrical and poetic prose as offering a fresh and elegant take on the pregnancy memoir genre, noting the book's power in probing the enduring mysteries of pregnancy and birth.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781566896757

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 June 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Coffee House Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Translated by Robin Myers

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 160

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Biography & Memoir Education & Reference Health & Wellness Isabel Zapata Non-Fiction Parenting & Family Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

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).