Chasing Mercury (The Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy) - Softcover

Williams, September

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692059660 ISBN 13: 9780692059661

Publisher: Cove International Publishers, 2018

Synopsis

An epileptic Black ballerina and a Powwow dancer whistleblower journalist meet in the Montreal Airport. They are both scheduled to perform in Berlin, 1973 Cold War Berlin. During the transatlantic crossing their love evolves. On a long lay over in Zurich, he stuns her by depositing many hundreds of thousands of dollars into his Swiss bank account, to which he adds her name with no true explanation. Is she an accomplice or is this just love in the time of mercury poisoning?Chasing Mercury is a soaring cross cultural, romantic-suspense-memoir, about families devoted to human and environmental rights. The novel honors the 2017 ratification of the United Nations Minamata Convention on Mercury, and its going into force as international law. Chasing Mercury is the first of a series of three books in the Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy.

About this title

About the Author:

September Williams is an American physician-writer, bioethicist and filmmaker. Her work focuses on promoting resilience for people who are ill, aging, dying, or stressed by environmen- tal and humanitarian violation. Her first novel, and the first of a series of three books, is Chasing Mercury, a romantic suspense memoir about families committed to human rights and environmental justice. Dr. Williams is a member of the National Writers Union (AFLCIO/UAW 1981), and an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists. September's nonfiction writing is about bioethics and film. A graduate of the University of Winnipeg Collegiate Division, September has a BSc. in Zoology from the University of Manitoba, attended Creighton University School of Medicine, and completed internal medicine residency at Cook County Hospital. Among other clinical fellowships Dr. Williams is a former Lowell T. Coggleshall Fellow at the University of Chicago Ma- cLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. She studied film and screenwriting in the MFA program at Columbia College, Chicago and Boston University, and was a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute fellow in film. Focused on writing and narrative bioethics, Dr. Williams retired from the San Francisco City and County Laguna Honda Hospital -- God's Hotel. September Williams has two millennial adult children and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area--Marin County, California, where she writes, dances, and open water rows.

Review:

"A soaring love story illuminates the powerful attraction between two human beings through intimate engagements with the historical movements that shaped them and their families, including, most importantly, environmental justice. September Williams has indeed written a provocative tale for our times." Angela Y. Davis, Author Activist, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz

"A breathtaking journey that whisks love, death, sex, and global activism into a froth so perfect you want to lick it from your fingers." --Dianne Houston, Academy Award Nominated Director, Producer, Writer ( Harriet, Searching for Neverland, Surviving Compton, Tuesday Morning Ride...)

"Cinematic, luxuriant, and well-written, it is a fascinating braided narrative interwoven with the historical trail of severe human mercury poisoning, and as an added bonus, a love story. After reading it, I will never look at mercury, gold, or racism in the same way again." --Victoria Sweet, physician, historian, best-selling author of God's Hotel, Slow Medicine, and a Guggenheim Fellow.

"A lyrical, erotic and embodied prose of resistance and resilience, Chasing Mercury has the audacity to make us love." --Sarah E. Kornfeld, Cultural Curator, and author of What Stella Sees .

"Cinematic journey on the page! Brimming with African American and First Nation culture and history, this romance-suspense-saga teaches as it entertains and pirouetting in the center of it, a passionate love affair that keeps the pages turning and without a doubt will keep eyeballs glued to the movie screen."-- Monice Mitchell Simms, Socio-linguist, Author of Address House of Detention and Nana' Fridge

"The best of the romance genre, wrapped in an introduction to human and environmental rights." -- Eric P. Carlson

Amazon and Good Reads Reviewers say:

"September Williams is a heck of a wordsmith. Language is as an identifying factor among writers as jersey numbers are on the shirts of basketball players, and she has got a wonderful gift of sentence-crafting." --DLB

"What makes it stand apart is a tinkling, sweet quality... in the midst of tragedy the special something remains that gives glitter and shine to the story."--SX

"I've been unable to finish a book since my daughter was born ('cause sleep superseded anything other than her needs) but I found myself staying up past 1 AM to read this amazing book" --AH

"A transcendent novel that takes a moral stance..." --RS

"A fascinating and eye-opening read..above all it is a love story on so many levels..." --BA

"This is truly a lovely book, very enjoyable novel that combines romance and mystery and does it through a bond of relatable and well developed characters." --S

"I loved how it kept me connected to the story..." --PA

"An engrossing story bringing attention to environmental and social justice..." --MLGMDJD

"A story of protest, lineage, family, historical relationships, personal determination, and growth...." --WJP

"I didn't even know what I didn't even know!" --BJF

"Intelligent, strong, mind-pecking." --B.O. "Crossing barriers, risks, and danger too..." -- DU

In a world of danger that lurks in every corner, a story of love and adventure rises through --SA

About this edition

• Publisher: Cove International Publishers
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0692059660
• ISBN 13: 9780692059661
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 333
• Editor: Dalsimer Susan, Carlson Eric P.
• Illustrator: Johansen Marta Elise