Periodic companions

"Periodic Companions is a novel with characters based on the periodic table of elements. Relationships are based upon chemistry, and characters investigate poetics, contemplative practices, and outsider culture. Overwhelmed with the futility of institutional structures, and impelled to act in response to a tragic act of violence, the elemental characters create a collective action based upon chemical signaling using human tears, in the hopes of inventing a new context for non-violent protest."--