In I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying Bassey 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. Her remarkable memoir in essa…
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying Bassey 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 a…
A Publishers Weekly Spring Preview Selection "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 "Bassey Ikpi is a human miracle and I want to…