A review by loosetoothfool
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays by Bassey Ikpi

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

this was very moving, very well written, powerful, impactful. i absolutely adored the first quarter of this book, her writing about her childhood and her family and memory, that was exquisite, beautiful, heart breaking. and then the ending quarters focus on mental illness and this coming to a head in her life was very raw, powerful. this is a brave memoir, very personal, real. I have a lot of passages and lines underlined, the way she said certain things in ways I felt but couldn't describe spoke to me, especially at the start. this is quite dark and sad, but that is the nature of her experiences and I think it was important to share them