Crying in the Bathroom
A Memoir
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · July 11, 2023
“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 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.
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- Who it’s for
- A memoir with a conversational pulse and enough edge to keep a book-club table honest.
- Genres
- Hispanic & Latino Biography, Personal Memoirs, Essay Collections
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, July 11, 2023
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“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 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.
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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.
Why It Lands
A memoir with a conversational pulse and enough edge to keep a book-club table honest.
Come here for
- memoir-shaped, conversation-ready reflections
- a playful-serious voice with room to linger
Expect
- layered personal reflections
- identity, gifts, and American life in close orbit
Where it sits
| Hispanic & Latino Biography | 48% |
|---|---|
| Essay Collections | 39% |
| Personal Memoirs | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hispanic & Latino Biography
- Personal Memoirs
- Essay Collections
- Authors
- Erika L. Sánchez, Penguin Audio
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- July 11, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Hispanic & Latino Biography