Chasing Mercury: In the time of Mercury Poisoning Loving Someone Enough to Let Them Go is for Cowards

An epileptic black ballerina and a Powwow dancer, whistleblower journalist meet in the Montreal airport. They are both performing at an international youth festival in Berlin, 1973, Cold War Berlin. During a long layover in Z rich, he takes the ballerina to a Swiss Bank. Speaking French, the Powwow dancer deposits many thousands of dollars into his numbered account to which he adds her name, providing no true explanation. Is she an accomplice--or is this just love in the time of mercury poisoning?

Chasing Mercury is a romance-suspense-memoir inspired by the events leading to the Minamata World Convention on Mercury, ratified and entered into force August 16, 2017. Spanning three continents, the story covers decades and the world's waters. The novel connects human rights, environmental justice and romance. Chasing Mercury is the first in a series of three books in the Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy.

Chasing Mercury is... "a beautifully written international story of love and adventure... an exploration of deepest emotions pulling you headlong into a journey leaving you waiting eagerly for the next book in the series... the best of the romance genre, wrapped in an introduction to human and environmental rights...a lyrical, erotic and embodied prose of resistance and resilience..."

Author: September Williams
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cove International Publishers
Published: 02/24/2018
Series: Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy #1
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780692059661

About the Author
Williams, September: - 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.Dalsimer, Susan: - Susan Dalsimer is a developmental editor who cast an indomitable literary light. https: //www.independenteditorsgroup.com/susan-dalsimer/