Crying in the Bathroom

A Memoir

By: Erika L. Sánchez

Narrated by: Erika L. Sánchez

“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 disarmingly funny

Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the ‘90s, Erika L. Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy and dreamed of an unlikely life as a poet. 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 about everything from sex to white feminism to debilitating depression to the redemptive pursuits of spirituality, art, and travel, Sánchez reveals an interior life that is rich with ideas, self-awareness, and perception—that of a woman who charted a path entirely of her own making. 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.

What a life

So honest, sometimes painful, but full of hope. I don’t want to be that white racist.

Loved it!

By far one of my favorite books ever!!! Recommending this book to my patients, friends and family!!! Thank you Erika for all the laughs and tears :)

An incredible book

Love how raw and honest she was. This one hit me hard. It is wonderful to find stories from people you can identify with.

A story….

Great details and grateful the rawness was shared. Lots of moments resonated, and normalized a part of my existence as well. Thank you!

Beautifully written

Great writing, honest, relatable. Funny and sad and just really human. As a woman, as a Chicagoan, a 90s kid- so much here that was relatable. I loved it.