A Black Woman Takes Us Into the Swirl of Bipolar Disorder in New Memoir, I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying

Bassey Ikpi's I'm Telling The Truth, But I'm Lying, the 43-year-old's journey into her mental health struggle, is not a traditionally written memoir-neither in its structure nor in its nonchronological narrative. It is poetic, it is revelatory, it is distressing; it is, at times, exhausting. It is a literal entree"