Poignant but laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the pressures, expectations and stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican American home
Erika L. Sánchez Libri
Erika L. Sánchez è una poetessa e romanziera il cui lavoro spesso approfondisce temi di identità, immigrazione e attraversamento dei confini. Attraverso una voce distintiva che unisce bellezza lirica e acuto commento sociale, esplora le complessità del navigare tra culture multiple ed esperienze generazionali. La sua scrittura si distingue per l'onestà cruda e lo sguardo empatico sulle sfide della vita, offrendo ai lettori viaggi letterari profondi e risonanti. L'opera di Sánchez è una testimonianza della resilienza dello spirito umano e della ricerca di appartenenza.
Crying in the Bathroom
- 256pagine
- 9 ore di lettura
“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.