Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing: An African American Woman Biblical Scholar's Stroke Memoir

By Mitzi J. Smith

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FDMHPK7J
• ISBN13: 9798385236411
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"