I'm telling the truth, but I'm lying : essays
(Book)

Book Cover
Average Rating

Description

Loading Description...

Also in this Series

Checking series information...

Copies

LocationCall NumberStatus
Acorn Public Library District - Stacks616.89 IKPOn Shelf
Berwyn Public Library - Stacks616.895 IKPOn Shelf
Calumet City Public Library - Nonfiction616.89 IKPOn Shelf
Cicero Public Library - Stacks616.895 IKPOn Shelf
Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - AdultESSAYS IKPI, B.On Shelf
Show All Copies

More Like This

Loading more titles like this title...

More Details

Published
New York : Harper Perennial, [2019].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780062698346, 0062698346

Notes

Description
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 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. From 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. By the time she was in her early twenties, Bassey was a spoken word artist and traveling with HBO's Def Poetry Jam, channeling her life into art. 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. In I'm Telling the Truth, But I'm Lying, Bassey Ikpi breaks open our understanding of mental health by giving us intimate access to her own. Exploring shame, confusion, medication, and family in the process, Bassey looks at how mental health impacts every aspect of our lives--how we appear to others, and more importantly to ourselves--and challenges our preconception about what it means to be "normal." Viscerally raw and honest, the result is an exploration of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of who we are--and the ways, as honest as we try to be, each of these stories can also be a lie.

Reviews from GoodReads

Loading GoodReads Reviews.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ikpi, B. (2019). I'm telling the truth, but I'm lying: essays (First edition.). Harper Perennial.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ikpi, Bassey. 2019. I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays. Harper Perennial.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ikpi, Bassey. I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays Harper Perennial, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Ikpi, Bassey. I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays First edition., Harper Perennial, 2019.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

Staff View

Loading Staff View.