Ursula, Under by Hill, Ingrid
Ursula, Under by Hill, Ingrid

Ursula, Under

A daring novel of culture, history, and heredity, hailed as "extravagant and absorbing" (Audrey Niffenegger, author of...
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Author: Ingrid Hill
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Ursula, Under by Hill, Ingrid

Ursula, Under

$30.72
Ursula, Under by Hill, Ingrid

Ursula, Under

$30.72
Author: Ingrid Hill
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A daring novel of culture, history, and heredity, hailed as "extravagant and absorbing" (Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife)

A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year

In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the attention of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft. It is as if all hope for life on the planet is bound up in the rescue of this little girl, the first and only child of a young woman of Finnish extraction and her Chinese-American husband.

The novel takes a breathtaking leap back in time to visit Ursula's most remarkable ancestors: a third-century-B.C. Chinese alchemist; an orphaned playmate of a seventeenth-century Swedish queen; Professor Alabaster Wong, a Chautauqua troupe lecturer (on exotic Chinese topics) traveling the Midwest at the end of the nineteenth century; her great-great-grandfather Jake Maki, who died at twenty-nine in a Michigan iron mine cave-in; and others whose richness and history are contained in the induplicable DNA of just one person--little Ursula Wong.

Ursula's story echoes those of her ancestors, many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that her very existence--like ours--comes to seem a miracle. Ambitious and accomplished, Ursula, Under is, most of all, wonderfully entertaining.

Author: Ingrid Hill
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 06/28/2005
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.30w x 1.12d
ISBN: 9780143035459
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 79

About the Author
Ingrid Hill is the author of the short story collection Dixie Church Interstate Blues. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa and has twice received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has twelve children, including two sets of twins. She lives in Iowa City.
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