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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 hilariously funny Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the '90s, Erika Sanchez 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, acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her. In these essays, Sanchez 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 Sanchez at her best—a book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend.
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"Her candid divulgences about sex, vaginal infections, abortion and body shame reveal how 'when you're a young woman, simply having a body is a hazard'; and these plainly told personal truths are as absorbing as a deep and wide-ranging conversation with a trusted friend ..."
"A rewarding debut memoir in which a sensitive soul finds salvation in poetry and a life in literature."
"It's no surprise that mistakes feature prominently in the book ..."
"With animated, often hilarious, vignettes from a multicultural youth spent yearning for the solitude necessary for writing, Crying in the Bathroom finds the author immensely grateful for the good fortune of the present, for a splendid study of her own and the sacrifices her hardworking parents made so their daughter could pursue her literary dreams and lead a life of the mind."
"These dueling states become the through line to lyrical musings that, though blunt in their candor...are leavened by the author's great wit and compassion ..."
"Sánchez refers to herself as loud and crass, and her writing proves it."
"Sánchez spares no detail in relating her life experiences ..."
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