Crying in the Bathroom

Crying in the BathroomGrowing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Snchez 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, an

Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika S�nchez 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, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her.
Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika S�nchez 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, an acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her.