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The Truth About the Lies I Told Myself: A Poetry Memoir

The Truth About the Lies I Told Myself: A Poetry Memoir - Paperback

by Staniella Othello
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Availability:In StockContributor:Staniella OthelloTheme:Ethnic Orientation/African American, Sex & Gender/Feminine, Topical/Women's InterestPublish date:8/1/2026Pages:228
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Staniella OthelloISBN-13:9798234025982UPC:9798234025982Book Category:Poetry, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Women Authors, MemoirsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.309Product ID:SCPZQ0A76X

What happens when the love story you fought for becomes the lie that breaks you?

In The Truth About the Lies I Told Myself, Staniella Othello braids poems, letters, journal entries, and razor-sharp prose into a record of devotion turning feral: red flags recast as romance, silence renamed loyalty, and endurance mistaken for love. What begins as tenderness becomes evidence-the small bargains, the swallowed words, the body's alarms explained away.

When the story finally splits, she follows the fracture back through earlier conditioning-abandonment, predatory attention, the hunger to be chosen-and chooses the holy terror of leaving. In the aftermath, grief is not a lesson but a landscape, and truth arrives with a cost.

This book is heartbreak with teeth. Raw, reflective, and deeply human, The Truth About the Lies I Told Myself is for anyone who has ever loved someone more than they loved themselves and is ready to come home.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Staniella OthelloISBN-13:9798234025982UPC:9798234025982Book Category:Poetry, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Women Authors, MemoirsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.309Product ID:SCPZQ0A76X
Othello, Staniella: - Staniella Othello is a poet and writer whose work lives where tenderness meets nerve. With lyric candor, dark humor, and sharp emotional precision, she writes about relational grief, identity, survival, and the long practice of returning to yourself. Her debut poetry collection, Stripes & Polka Dots, introduced readers to an intimate, image-rich voice; her poetry memoir, The Truth About the Lies I Told Myself, expands that terrain through poems, letters, vignettes, and reflective prose-tracking the quiet bargains we make in love, and the moment those bargains become untenable. Othello is drawn to truth-telling that doesn't perform perfection: work that can hold accountability and softness in the same breath. When she's not writing, she's likely traveling, laughing at the worst possible moment, and making room for language that helps readers feel seen.
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