Kate Zambreno is the author of several acclaimed books including Screen Tests, Heroines, and Green Girl. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction, she teaches in the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University and is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

ZAMBRENO'S WARMEST, MOST EMBRACEABLE BOOK: While her work has often been likened to intellectual masters like Lydia Davis or Anne Carson, Drifts has been hailed as Zambreno's most engaging, likable, and funny work: an "utterly invigorating" (Observer) book in which "Zambreno's charm and wit dance off the page" (Refinery29).A MAJOR STEP IN A MUCH-FOLLOWED CAREER: Along with rave reviews everywhere from the New York Times to Entertainment Weekly to Elle, Drifts has been recognized as a major step in the career of "one of our most formally ambitious writers" (Esquire), and prompted whole-career retrospectives in the LA Review of Books, the Chicago Review of Books, and elsewhere."THE PERFECT BOOK FOR THE MOMENT WE'RE LIVING IN" (Boston Globe): In a voice that's tender and compulsively readable, Drifts follows a writer's solitary attempt to capture the very passage of time-and its portrayal of loneliness has resonated with readers in a time when unexpected isolation is nearly universal.

Drifts is a dazzling and enjoyable book. Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup. I've never read truer pages on the subject of pregnancy. No writer has come so close to achieving a total grasp of life: the entanglement of everyday things, a writing project, and a pregnant body, in a single work.   Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Paris Review, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Vulture, and Refinery29

Reading all Zambreno feels like the jolt one gets from a surprise cut or burn in the kitchen, that sudden recognition that you re in a body and the body can be hurt. Alicia Kennedy, Refinery29

Haunting and compulsively readable, Drifts is an intimate portrait of reading, writing, and creative obsession. At work on a novel that is overdue, spending long days walking neighborhood streets with her restless terrier, corresponding ardently with fellow writers, the narrator grows obsessed with the challenge of writing the present tense, of capturing time itself. Entranced by the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, Albrecht Dürer, Chantal Akerman, and others, she photographs the residents and strays of her neighborhood, haunts bookstores and galleries, and records her thoughts in a yellow notebook that soon subsumes her work on the novel. As winter closes in, a series of disturbances the appearances and disappearances of enigmatic figures, the burglary of her apartment leaves her distracted and uncertain . . . until an intense and tender disruption changes everything.

A story of artistic ambition, personal crisis, and the possibilities and failures of literature, Drifts is the work of an exhilarating and vital writer.