Most recently, Sánchez published a critically acclaimed memoir-in-essays titled Crying in the Bathroom with Viking Books. It is now being made into a film directed by America Ferrera. Her debut young adult novel, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Awards finalist. Sánchez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. In addition to enjoying the talk, you'll have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A with the author and may submit questions while registering.Įrika L. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link. 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, Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment-a 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. The author of the bestselling YA novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Sánchez will discuss her utterly original and disarmingly funny memoir, Crying in the Bathroom. With the help of her best friend, Lorena, and her first love (first everything), Connor, Julia is determined to find out.Join us for a lively and laugh-out-loud virtual chat with award-winning author Erika Sánchez on Tuesday, July 25 at 4 PM. Instead, her mother seems to channel her grief into pointing outīut it's not long before Julia discovers that Olga might not have been as perfect as everyone thought. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken, too. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. Perfect Mexican daughters neverīut Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college.
In this poignant but often 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. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets
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