{"product_id":"in-vitro-on-longing-and-transformation-9781566896757","title":"In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA meditation on in vitro fertilization that expands and complicates the stories we tell about pregnancy. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedical 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 \u003ci\u003eLittle Labors\u003c\/i\u003e and Sarah Manguso's \u003ci\u003eOngoingness, In Vitro\u003c\/i\u003e draws from diary and essay forms to create a new kind of literary companion and open up space for nuanced conversations about pregnancy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsabel Zapata\u003c\/b\u003e is a Mexico City-born writer and editor. She is the author of the poetry book \u003ci\u003eUna ballena es un país\u003c\/i\u003e and the bilingual essay collection \u003ci\u003eAlberca vacía \/ Empty Pool\u003c\/i\u003e (trans. Robin Myers). Recent work has appeared in English translation in \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature Today, Waxwing, The Common, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a cofounder and publisher at Ediciones Antílope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e is a Mexico City-based poet and translator. Her translations include \u003ci\u003eCopy\u003c\/i\u003e by Dolores Dorantes (Wave Books), \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of Every Cell\u003c\/i\u003e by Maricela Guerrero (Cardboard House Press), \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Explanations\u003c\/i\u003e by Tedi López Mills (Deep Vellum Publishing), \u003ci\u003eCars on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e by Mónica Ramón Ríos (Open Letter Books), and \u003ci\u003eThe Restless Dead\u003c\/i\u003e by Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727125352722,"sku":"9781566896757","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2c301493-e231-4077-ad78-7749000d5315.jpg?v=1734893637","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-vitro-on-longing-and-transformation-9781566896757","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}