Cassiopeia's Quest: A Young Woman's Journey of Exploration, Learning, and Imagination.

By Jerry Smetzer

"Cassiopeia's Quest" is a collection of 10 short pieces of historical fiction in book form. The protagonist in each story is a young woman. Though young she is exceptionally mature and intelligent as she makes her way through the events occuring in the history of that story's time and place. The stories occur chronologically, and the chronology is long... 100,000 BCE in Story 1 to some time in the near future in Story 10. Over the past year of intensive writing I have worked with several volunteer friends, family, neighbors, and other aspiring writers and painters. They read, they edit, and they speak to me about the finer points of aesthetics and story telling. The book's Preamble, here, describes my motivation for doing the actual writing: "The concept that is driving the creation of this book began in my mind, as I think about it now, several years after seeing the 1971 Australian movie 'Walkabout.' The Director, Nicholas Roeg, lays the opening scenes in modern-day Sidney. His characters are part of an upscale suburban white family headed by a father who seems troubled. There is a post-puberty private school girl and her much younger, sun-bleached, blond brother. Both the children are dressed in the pressed uniform and hat for their school.While these early scenes unfold a young Aboriginal boy begins his tribal rite of passage deep in the outback. This is his walkabout - the concept behind the movie

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1732665605
• ISBN13: 9781732665606
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Small Systems Design Associates
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"