The Girls Bathroom: The Must-Have Book for Messy, Wonderful Women

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In very few words, this book manages to convey its message and a wealth of feeling that will stick with readers long after they have emerged from their washroom escape. Open me, the bathroom book whispers, and step away from the braying news, the wheedling ads, the braggadocio of social media. The series inspired innumerable copycats and, by the time the Javna brothers stepped away from the line in 2016, they estimated they’d sold more than 14 million books. The bathroom ought to be a respite from the loud, angry world, a place to purge our bodies of waste and clear our minds for the time ahead.

A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing but Using the Bathroom as an Escape will be available on November 16th, 2021. To give us those tips and tricks we never knew were essential, and to advise us against making the same mistakes again and again. From the utilitarian to the luxurious and from the Victorian-influenced to the modern, these rooms are showcases of stunning design.

All in all, A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing but Using the Bathroom as an Escape is a wonderful graphic novel dealing with social anxiety and to help readers feel calm, confident, and less alone. Goodman's assistants in the editing and transcription process were Maggie Rogers and Eva Hendricks, both of whom were students at New York University Tisch School of the Arts' Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the time, and would later become known as musicians in their own right. But that changed in the late 1980s, when brothers John and Gordon Javna created Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, the first purpose-built bathroom book. I think people now might view that as a cleanliness issue, having books that everyone touches in there.

This short audiobook is for anyone that can relate to feeling anxious and needing a time-out to regroup.In September 2019, Goodman adapted the content of the book as a gallery exhibition at The Hole in Manhattan.