Bassey ikpi biography of william hill

memoir by Bassey Ikpi

I'm Telling the Truth but I'm Lying is a memoir by Nigerian spoken word artist Bassey Ikpi published by Harper Perennial an imprint of HarperCollins in ^[1][2]

Plot

The book is described as "a deep personal work that chronicles the Nigerian-American author's life living with bipolar II disorder and anxiety, and a woman of color and combating the stigma surrounding it."^[3] The essays cover her difficulties as a young child re-locating from Nigeria to America, struggling with household tensions, depression and hospitalization, leading up to her eventual diagnosis of and treatment for bipolar II disorder.^[4]

Development

On May 4, , it was announced that her first book, a memoir titled Making Friends With Giants would be published by Harper Perennial in ^[3] The book, eventually renamed I'm Telling the Truth But I'm Lying was published in August

Reception

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