Ursula, Under Paperback - 2005
by Ingrid Hill
This remarkable debut novel opens with a two-year-old girl trapped in an abandoned mine shaft, then travels back through history to trace the extraordinary lives of her most unusual and surprising ancestors.
Summary
In response, 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—a daring saga of culture, history, and heredity.
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- Title Ursula, Under
- Author Ingrid Hill
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Printing
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date June 28, 2005
- ISBN 9780143035459 / 0143035452
- Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.3 x 1.12 in (20.37 x 13.46 x 2.84 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Suspense fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"It’s a divine view of a family tree... Ride along to the end of this merry, generous book." —Time Out New York
"Hill’s stories lure-the characters are vital, clever, detailed, appealing; I wolfed the book down like a bowl of cookie dough." —The San Diego Union-Tribune
"Ursula, Under never ceases to surprise and compel. What a grand and daring book." —Brady Udall, author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Citations
- Ingram Advance, 06/01/2005, Page 79
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