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 BettyFrom 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 Sánchez was a self-described
pariah misfit and disappointment a 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 she s now an award-winning novelist poet
and essayist but she s still got an irrepressible laugh an acerbic wit and singular powers
of perception about the world around her. In these essays Sánchez 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 Sánchez at her best a book that will make you feel that post-confessional
high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend.
