All right, we are down to our last three cities for the live in the stacks tour, and if the first two stops were any indication, you do not want to miss this tour.

I will be in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th. I will be in New York City with KSA layman on September 25th, and I will be in Los Angeles on October 18th with three guests.

Yes, three guests, three of my favorite friends of the podcast, Rachel Lindsay, Chelsea Devantes, and Sam Sanders.

The show promises a night of big laughs, hot takes, and more bookish conversation than you could possibly imagine.

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Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas, and this episode we are joined by poet and novelist Erica L. Sanchez to discuss her brand new book, a memoir in essays called Crying in the Bathroom.

This book has been called everything from raunchy, hilarious, and unapologetic to insightful, poignant, and brutally honest.

It deals with topics including sex, depression, and religion, and I talk today with Erica about her upbringing as a Mexican American misfit, her award-winning career, reproductive justice, and a lot more.

Our book club pick for July is season of migration to the North by Tayyab Salah, and we will be discussing this book on July 27th with Elamin Abdel Mahmoud.

Quick reminder, everything we talk about on each episode of the stacks can be found in the link in the show notes.

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Thank you all so much and thank you to the entire stacks pack for your support. And now it's time for my conversation with Erica L Sanchez.

All right, everybody. I'm very excited today. I am joined by Erica L Sanchez, who is the author of crying in the bathroom. Erica, welcome to the stacks.

Thank you so much. I'm really excited to have you and talk about this memoir and essays. But before we dive in, I always ask people to start here in about 30 seconds or so. Can you tell the folks about the book?

Sure. Crying in the bathroom is a memoir that spans a great deal of time and subject matter. And it is written in essay form. I cover a lot of, you know, ideas and concepts of gender identity.

I feel like this memoir really encompasses a lot of what young brown women go through when navigating a very white world, a very misogynist world.

And so yeah, it's been quite a journey to get to this point.

Yeah, I think what I appreciated about the book so much is there were so many things that I could relate to. And then so many things where I was like, well, I've never thought about that in that way. Like it was like, oh, I needed an author to explain my life to me.

Beautiful. Yeah, I want to talk about humor. One of the early essays in your book, you first of all, you talk about your laugh. And so I'm really curious because your book is not published yet, but it will be very soon when people are listening, it will be out in the world.

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