Biography Book Club

Monday, November 216:30—7:30 PMVIRTUAL PROGRAM - Peabody Institute Library, 15 Sylvan Street, Danvers, MA 01923 - 978-774-0554

This month we will be discussing Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir by Erika L. Sanchez (July 2022). Copies are available through NOBLE(regular print) or (Large Print), or Libby as an (ebook).  The Biography Book Club meets on the 1st Monday of the month at 6:30pm on Zoom and the link is emailed late the same afternoon.  You can also email amiller@noblenet.org with any questions. 

About the book: "Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the '90s, Erika Sanchez 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, acerbic wit, and singular powers of perception about the world around her.

In these essays, Sanchez 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 Sanchez at her best—a book that will make you feel that post-confessional high that comes from talking for hours with your best friend." (goodreads)

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