| A Journey In Search of Self | | | | She tells of the economic challenges of the era, |
| Cora Alyce Seaman writes with feeling as she | | | | technical progress, dysfunctional family |
| takes the reader back in time to the early years | | | | relationships, friendships, faith, and loneliness with |
| of the twentieth century and escorts them | | | | pathos and a poignancy that is both heart |
| through to the mid-century point. "Emily's Quest" | | | | wrenching and heartwarming. |
| is a remarkable story. It is the fictional life of | | | | In part two of the story Emily is reunited with her |
| Emily Whitfield Carmichael. During her young | | | | twin sister Charlotte. World War II is underway. |
| childhood Emily's parents are the fatal victims of a | | | | The United States joined the allied forces and |
| flu epidemic. | | | | Eustis was sent to the South Pacific. Cora |
| Shortly after their death Emily is separated from | | | | highlights significant events of the wartime era. |
| her twin sister Charlotte. Emily is faced with the | | | | The years pass quickly for Emily as she is faced |
| realization that she has become the victim of her | | | | with the challenge of dealing with the death of |
| circumstances. Emily's earliest years were spent in | | | | family members, raising her son, and completing |
| a coal mining town in Pennsylvania. | | | | the educational qualifications for becoming a |
| As a new bride, right out of high school, Emily and | | | | teacher. Emily continued to pursue her quest to |
| her husband move to a small mountain | | | | discover who she really was right up to the |
| community in the hills of Eastern Kentucky. Her | | | | surprising dramatic conclusion recounted in the |
| young husband, Eustis Carmichael, enlisted in the | | | | epilogue. |
| U. S. Navy and became a career man. He was | | | | "Emily's Quest" covers the first half of the |
| stationed in the Great Lakes region. After several | | | | Twentieth century and gives the reader a |
| years of marriage Emily is finally able to join him. | | | | nostalgic glimpse at the struggles faced by the |
| The book is fiction, biographical and historical in | | | | Emily's of the time. Seaman offers hope and |
| approach; however, it could be Cora Seaman's | | | | inspiration for facing whatever hurdles the reader |
| own story. Cora writes with a depth of | | | | may be facing. She gives hope and inspiration to |
| understanding that project an empathy as she | | | | the reader to rise above their circumstances. |
| tells of the hardships and struggles Emily faced. | | | | |