{"product_id":"2940013111882","title":"Quicksilver Chronicles","description":"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 acid mine drainage in a forgotten western ghost town called New Idria.  As the clan copes with the deadly, mercury-laden mess left behind by unscrupulous mining corporations and the U.S. Department of Defense, the family’s hopes of environmental justice grow dimmer with each new anti-scientific edict fobbed upon them by the Little Bush\/Cheney Administration. That is when they realize their only realistic prospect is to out-govern the government. Nothing is sacred. They spoof all politics and cultural mores.\u003cbr\u003eAfter they officially secede from the United States, the tiny community earnestly elects an orange tabby, a people-hating cat, as Mayor to represent their micro-nation.\u003cbr\u003eThe family struggles to obtain respect from the outside world -- if only their sole source of water and its ensuing biophysical attacks on their motor skills (along with a neighboring cult-like reservoir-hoarding failed drug rehab) would cease foiling their endeavors.","brand":"Whimsy Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069751640304,"sku":"2940013111882","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013111882_p0.jpg?v=1763576524","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013111882","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}