On Longing and Transformation” – Chicago Review of Books

On Longing and Transformation” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] “The first rule of in vitro fertilization is to never talk about in vitro fertilization,” Isabel Zapata tells us from the waiting room of the IVF clinic, where she refrains from asking the other women how they got there, where they are in the process, how they’re responding to the medications. But there are … Read more

The Shifting Perspectives of Longing in “Tell Me How to Be” – Chicago Review of Books

The Shifting Perspectives of Longing in “Tell Me How to Be” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Neel Patel’s Tell Me How to Be opens with both narrators spent: Akash and his mother, Renu, are weary and anxious. Decisions they made years ago have grown burdensome, seemingly inescapable: “No one ever told me that happiness was like a currency: that when it goes, it goes.” This is from Patel’s short story … Read more