Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir

Equal parts pee-your-pants hilarity and break your heart poignancy- like the perfect brunch date you never want to end!"--America Ferrera, Emmy award-winning actress in Ugly Betty From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is hilarious Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Snchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointmenta foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her friends that she had to leave her school classroom. Twenty-five years later, shes now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but shes still got an irrepressible laugh, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her. In these essays, Snchez writes about everything from sex to white feminism to debilitating depression, revealing an interior life rich with ideas, self-awareness, and perception. Raunchy, insightful, unapologetic, and brutally honest, Crying in the Bathroom is Snchez at her besta book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend.