Quicksilver Chronicles

"Quicksilver Chronicles" is one woman’s surreal yet satirical memoirs spanning seven years -- from the beginning of this new century -- depicting what life throws at her family of gem-mining misfits struggling to live with mercury polluted water in a forgotten western ghost town called New Idria. As the James family copes with the deadly, poisonous mess left by unscrupulous mining corporations, the U.S. Department of Defense, and a reservoir-hoarding drug rehab upstream, their hopes of environmental justice grow dimmer with each new anti-scientific policy thrown at them by the government. The tiny community earnestly elects an orange tabby, a people-hating cat, as Mayor to represent their micro-nation. Told through the eyes of Georgia James, the saga details the clan's run-ins with highgraders, UFOs, "Littlefoot," the insane "War on Drugs," and the absurd politics of the Bush/Cheney years.