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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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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

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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Isabel Zapata is a Mexico Cityborn writer and editor. She is the author of the poetry bookUna ballena es un pasand the bilingual essay collectionAlberca vaca / Empty Pool(trans. Robin Myers). Recent work has appeared in English translation inWorld Literature Today, Waxwing, The Common,andWords Without Borders. She is a cofounder and publisher at Ediciones Antlope. Robin Myers is a Mexico Citybased poet and translator. Her translations include Copyby Dolores Dorantes (Wave Books), The Dream of Every Cellby Maricela Guerrero (Cardboard House Press), The Book of Explanationsby Tedi Lpez Mills (Deep Vellum Publishing), Cars on Fire(Open Letter Books), and The Restless Deadby Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press).

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