Eliza Factor presents The Mercury Fountain

Local author and Greenlight neighbor Eliza Factor presents her new novel, The Mercury Fountain. Factor’s debut is a sweeping epic that takes place at the turn of the twentieth century in a remote and beautiful stretch of Chihuahuan desert near the border of West Texas and Mexico.

Factor ably blends the noirish sensibilities of Cormac McCarthy with the seductive language of Gabriel García Márquez and delivers an unforgettable protagonist who would be at home next to Daniel Day-Lewis in the film “There Will Be Blood.” 

The Mercury Fountain combines realistic modern writing with elements from American and Greco-Roman mythology, taking its cue and name from the most slippery and mischievous of gods, who rules over science, commerce, eloquence, and thievery.