New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel - a "fast-paced, scathingly funny black comedy" set in Sierra Leone in Africa where a Peace Corps volunteer has gone missing. Both his father and his best friend search for him and in doing so they encounter witches and witch-finders, bush devils, bad medicine, and even a bundle of rags that might have caused supernatural disturbances. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-374-289514.

Boston: Little Brown, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel, second book by this award winning writer, a hallucinatory tale about a young African American's quest for his own identity in modern Senegal. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-316-560588.

Chicago: Quadrangle Books, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - This diary, written during the 2 years from 1962-1963 when Smith was serving as a Peace Corps volunteer teacher in Ghana, is not just an account of his time there, but also a record of his search for his own identity in Africa.He went to Ghana thinking he was Black; he came home two years later knowing he was an American. While he discovered his other world, but he also realized that his ancestry was not a passport to identity. He remained active in civil rights and education, but this was apparently his only book. 221 pp. Dust jacket by Mark Belenchia.