Crying in the Bathroom

<b>&ldquo;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 <i>Ugly Betty</i><br>From the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter</i>, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is hilarious</b><br>Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika S&aacute;nchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment&mdash;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&rsquo;s now an award-winning novelist, poet, and essayist, but she&rsquo;s still got an irrepressible laugh, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her.<br>In these essays, S&aacute;nchez 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, <i>Crying in the Bathroom </i>is S&aacute;nchez at her best&mdash;a book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend.