I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays Binding:Paperback he had to confront what

he had to confront what almost killed him—the weight of being a Black man in America

proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife Clara

born in Louisiana

"--Hailey Piper

Kaitlyn Greenidge

I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays Binding:Paperback he had to confront whatINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In Im Telling the Truth, but Im Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her lifeas a Nigerian American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artistthrough 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