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 the Authors
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.
Susan Dalsimer is a developmental editor who cast an indomitable literary light. https: //www.independenteditorsgroup.com/susan-dalsimer/
Marta Elise Johansen is a consummate Designer, Artist, Photographer and Architect known for her clean lines and aesthetics. http: //www.martajohansen.com
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