![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Also in focus is her mental illness and her often difficult relationship with her family. Central to her book’s title - and disconcerting - is the fact that she has fragmented (and sometimes, false) memories of certain life events. She discusses her childhood and her experience with multiple dissociative episodes. The Goodīassey is unflinchingly honest in this essay collection - nothing is off the table. Prolonged insomnia, an inability to focus, desperate depression, and other symptoms eventually lead to a Bipolar II diagnosis. However, things begin to cycle out of control on tour. She’s well-known for traveling and performing with HBO’s Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam. After dropping out of college due to anxiety and depression in her early twenties, Bassey becomes a spoken word artist. I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying follows Bassey’s life from early childhood in Nigeria, moving to join her father in the States, and being an anxious child in the US. She’s always been vocal on social media about her life with Bipolar II and her debut essay collection is no different. You may have also read her work more recently on Catapult. But she’s been in the business for many years before. Summary: I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lyingīassey Ikpi is a Nigerian-American writer and poet whose work I first discovered after she attended Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Farafina writing workshop in 2014. ![]()
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