TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ikpi,Bassey
TI  - I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying :  Essays
SN  - 9780062698346
AV  - RC516 .I375 2019
U1  - 616.89/50092 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper Perennial
KW  - Ikpi, Bassey
KW  - Manic-depressive persons
KW  - Biography
KW  - United States
KW  - Manic-depressive illness
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - Patients
KW  - Nigerian Americans
KW  - Essays
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Autobiographies
N1  - The first essay is to prove to you that I have a childhood -- When they come for me -- The hands that held me -- Young girls they do get weary -- Yaka -- Becoming a liar -- Tehuti -- The quiet before -- Take two for pain -- Like a war -- This is what happens -- What it feels like -- Beauty in the breakdown -- It has a name -- Side effects may include -- Life sentence -- As hopeless as smoke -- The day before -- We don't wear blues -- Some days are fine -- When we bleed -- Searching for magic
N2  - "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 ... memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as [she] bares her own truths and lies for us all to behold with ... honesty and ... intimacy"--Publisher marketing
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