I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays Binding:Paperback Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself

Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man

Kaitlyn Greenidge

to touch what the mind cannot carry

"--Hailey Piper

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

I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays Binding:Paperback Willis Wu doesn't perceive himselfINSTANT 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