Who I Always Was: A Memoir

For fans of Aftershocks and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, an affective and deeply honest memoir in essays that "asks the deepest questions of identity, of home, of belonging" (Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City).

When Theresa Okokon was nine, her father traveled to his hometown in Nigeria to attend his mother's funeral...and never returned. His mysterious death shattered Theresa as her family's world unraveled. Now a storyteller and television coho...