![]() ![]() ![]() But beneath the façade of the confident performer, Bassey's mental health was in a precipitous decline, culminating in a breakdown that resulted in hospitalization and a diagnosis of Bipolar II. By the time she was in her early '20s, Bassey was a spoken word artist and traveling with HBO's Def Poetry Jam, channeling her life into art. "We will not think or talk about mental health or normalcy the same after reading this momentous art object moonlighting as a colossal collection of essays.” (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy)įrom her early childhood in Nigeria through her adolescence in Oklahoma, Bassey Ikpi lived with a tumult of emotions, cycling between extreme euphoria and deep depression - sometimes within the course of a single day. Ī Bookish Best Nonfiction of Summer Selection.Īn Electric Lit 48 Books by Women and Nonbinary Authors of Color to Read in 2019. ![]() Ī Publishers Weekly Spring Preview Selection.Ī Bustle 21 New Memoirs That Will Inspire, Motivate, and Captivate You.Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as Bassey bares her own truths and lies for us all to behold with radical honesty and brutal intimacy.Ī Bitch Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2019 In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying, Bassey Ikpi explores her life - as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist - through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. A 2020 Audie finalist - short stories/collections ![]()
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