Quicksilver Chronicles

Quicksilver Chronicles is one woman's surreal and satirical memoirs spanning about a decade from the beginning of this new century depicting what life throws at her family of gem-mining misfits struggling to live with a lethally polluted watershed in a forgotten western ghost town called New Idria. As the James family copes with systematic mercury poisoning -- the aftermath of unscrupulous mining corporations the U.S. Department of Defense and a reservoir-hoarding drug rehab upstream -- their hopes of environmental justice diminish with each new anti-scientific edict enacted by the state. 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.