Bassey Ikpi

Bassey Ikpi was born in Nigeria in 1976. Four years later, she and her mother joined her father in Stillwater, Oklahoma--a move that would be anxiety ridden for any child, but especially for Bassey. Her early years in America would come to be defined by tension: an assimilation further complicated by Bipolar II and anxiety that would go undiagnosed for decades. Viscerally raw and honest, this deeply personal collection of essays is an exploration...