Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing

Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing is the first stroke memoir written by a Black woman biblical scholar. Smith's story is her mother's story and it is not. It is the story of other stroke survivors and it is not. It is a unique telling of the civil war that erupts in her body. It is a journey of not knowing awareness survival fragmentation discovery and recovery. Smith's story is inspiring amazing brilliant funny thought-provoking and revelatory. She has a gift for bringing her readers into each space to see what she sees and feel what she feels.