Fostering greater understanding of others’ views and perspectives on local issues, and bridging the communication gaps that often exist in a diverse community.Promoting lively dialogue, critical thinking, and writing about literature.The major purpose of the Book Bridge Project is to bring Prince George’s County residents and the college community together in a shared learning experience about contemporary issues through literature by: The Prince George's Community College Book Bridge Project was started in 1996 under the direction of Dr. Student Life & Support Services Expand Menu Item.Workforce Development and Continuing Education.Transfer Credit Policies and Procedures.Admissions & Registration Expand Menu Item.Exploring shame, confusion, medication, and family in the process, Bassey looks at how mental health impacts every aspect of our lives-how we appear to others, and more importantly to ourselves-and challenges our preconception about what it means to be "normal." Viscerally raw and honest, the result is an exploration of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of who we are-and the ways, as honest as we try to be, each of these stories can also be a lie. In I'm Telling the Truth, But I'm Lying, Bassey Ikpi breaks open our understanding of mental health by giving us intimate access to her own. But beneath the façade of the confident performer, Bassey's mental health was in a precipitous decline, culminating in a breakdown that resulted in hospitalization and a diagnosis of Bipolar II. By the time she was in her early twenties, Bassey was a spoken word artist and traveling with HBO's Def Poetry Jam, channeling her life into art. "We will not think or talk about mental health or normalcy the same after reading this momentous art object moonlighting as a colossal collection of essays." -Kiese Laymon, author of Heavyįrom her early childhood in Nigeria through her adolescence in Oklahoma, Bassey Ikpi lived with a tumult of emotions, cycling between extreme euphoria and deep depression-sometimes within the course of a single day. A Bookish Best Nonfiction of Summer Selection.An Electric Lit 48 Books by Women and Nonbinary Authors of Color to Read in 2019.A Publishers Weekly Spring Preview Selection.A Bustle 21 New Memoirs That Will Inspire, Motivate, and Captivate You.A Bitch Magazine Most Anticipated Books of 2019.A Good Housekeeping Best 60 Books of the Year.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 intimacy. In I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life-as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist-through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety.
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