From theNew York Timesbestselling author ofI 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 Bathroomis Snchez at her besta book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend.

Erika L. Snchez is a Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Her debut poetry collection,Lessons on Expulsion, was published by Graywolf in July 2017, and was a finalist for the PEN America Open Book Award. Her debut young adult novel,I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter,published in October 2017 by Knopf Books for Young Readers, was aNew York Timesbestseller and a National Book Awards finalist.It is now is being made into a film directed by America Ferrera. Sanchez was a2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellow, a 2018 recipient of the 21st Century Award from the Chicago Public Library Foundation, and a 2019 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

• Publisher:Viking (July 12, 2022)
• Language:English
• Hardcover:256 pages
• ISBN-10:0593296931
• ISBN-13:9780593296936
• Item Weight:15.8 ounces
• Dimensions:6.24 x 0.96 x 9.3 inches
• Alt: Erica Sanchez, Erika Sanchez