Who is bassey ikpi

You have no idea how many people out there need these words. A wonderful exploration of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of who we are. In this impeccable collection of essays, Bassey writes about such difficult subject matter with gorgeous prose, effortless wit, a searing level of honesty and vulnerability coupled with a level of self-awareness you yearn for from compelling memoirists.

So many will be better for it. The writings are intimate, intense, and sometimes harrowing and claustrophobic…. It skips, batters, sinks, soars, and flows according to events and the state of her mental health.

Visceral and unsettling, these essays will not easily be forgotten. A must-read. Haunting and affirming. Readers interested in the subject will love her brave and honest approach to this book.

The Root Public Figure. Bitch Magazine: Most Anticipated Books of Bookish: Best Nonfiction of Summer Selection. Toggle navigation. When she first put pen to paper years ago, Bassey Ikpi thought she knew what she wanted her first book to be about: self-help.

But in time the former spoken word poet decided her first literary offering to the world should be more honest, more vulnerable. In the collection of essays, Ikpi, of Maryland, explores her life through the lens of her mental health struggles with anxiety and bipolar II disorder using visceral snapshots of memories from her childhood to her adult years.

I want people to be as empathetic to the person they love as they are to the person in the office who never speaks.