Naomi Gladish Smith

Works

The Wanderers
A novel that, from first page to last, envelops the reader in the world to come. It imagines that world to which all must travel after their time on earth ends, taking us with a group of people who make that journey and experience all its wonders.

"In this wonderful novel, we join a handful of very human travelers...a heartwarming contribution to our ideas about the connections between our lives, our world, and enlightening spiritual dimensions that are not so far away." - Steve Hammons

"...a highly entertaining mixture of Emmanuel Swedenborg and Rod Serling." - Vaishali

The Arrivals
At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, Flight 785 is boarded by a group of ordinary people from all walks of life. This richly adventurous plot gradually reveals each passenger's innermost being as they explore an afterlife unlike any they'd imagined.

"This beautiful novel is an intelligently conceived, articulately written story…that offers deep insights into the mysteries of love, life, and beyond."
--Alexis Masters, author of The Giuliana Legacy


"Airline passengers who learn they are each bound for a different destination serve as a metaphor for traveling through life toward the hereafter."
--Publishers Weekly

Pace, Pace
"Pace, Pace" originally appeared in the June 12, 1991 issue of JAMA (1991;265 (22):2948) copyright 1991 American Medical Association. It was anthologized in A Piece of My Mind: A New Collection of Essays From JAMA (AMA Press; 2000).

Selected Works

Fiction
The Wanderers
The Wanderers visits a world beyond this one, taking the reader along with a group of travelers as they discover that the decisions made while on earth have more consequences than they could ever have imagined.
The Arrivals
Dramatizes the afterlife in a way that will have the reader thinking about it for a long time after finishing the story.
"Sobering, provocative and thoroughly entertaining."
--Barbara Shoup, author of Faithful Women
Pace, Pace
The writer muses on the death of her elderly parents.