The Truth About the Lies I Told Myself: A Poetry Memoir - Paperback
The Truth About the Lies I Told Myself: A Poetry Memoir - Paperback
Description
by Staniella Othello (Author)
What happens when the love story you fought for becomes the lie that breaks you?
Told through poems, letters, journal entries, and razor-sharp prose, The Truth About the Lies I Told Myself traces devotion as it turns feral-red flags dressed up as romance, silence mistaken for loyalty, endurance mistaken for love. What begins as tenderness becomes evidence: the small bargains, the swallowed words, the body's alarms explained away.
When the fantasy finally breaks, Othello follows the fracture back to its origins-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 she must navigate, and truth arrives with a cost.
This is heartbreak with teeth. Raw, reflective, and deeply human, it's for anyone who has ever loved someone more than they loved themselves-and is finally ready to come home.
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