Im Telling the Truth, But Im Lying: Essays Ikpi Bassey
Im Telling the Truth, But Im Lying: Essays Ikpi Bassey A Publishers Weekly Spring Preview SelectionA deeply personal collection of essays exploring Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi's experiences…
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Im Telling the Truth, But Im Lying: Essays Ikpi Bassey
A Publishers Weekly Spring Preview SelectionA deeply personal collection of essays exploring Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi's experiences navigating Bipolar II and anxiety throughout the course of her life.Bassey Ikpi was born in Nigeria in 1976. Her early years in America would come to be defined by tension: an assimilation further complicated by bipolar II and anxiety that would go undiagnosed for decades.By the time she was in her early twenties, Bassey was a spoken word artist and traveling with HBO's Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam, channeling her experiences into art. Four years later, she and her mother joined her father in Stillwater, Oklahoma --a move that would be anxiety ridden for any child, but especially for Bassey.
But something wasn't right--beneath the fa ade of the confident performer, Bassey's mental health was in a precipitous decline,