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Ursula Under
by Ingrid Hill

Published: 2006
Paperback : 496 pages
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One of the most widely praised and rapturously entertaining first novels in recent years begins with a little girl falling down an abandoned mineshaft in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Her name is Ursula Wong, she's part Chinese, part Finnish, only two years old, and soon the dangerous ...
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(One of the most widely praised and rapturously entertaining first novels in recent years begins with a little girl falling down an abandoned mineshaft in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Her name is Ursula Wong, she's part Chinese, part Finnish, only two years old, and soon the dangerous effort to rescue her has an entire country glued to the TV. As it follows that effort, Ursula, Under re-creates the chain of ancestors, across two thousand years, whose lives culminate in the fragile miracle of a little girl underground: a Chinese alchemist in the third century bc, the orphaned playmate to a seventeenth- century Swedish queen, Ursula's great-great-grandfather who was the casualty of a mining accident that eerily foreshadows Ursula's dilemma, and many more. A work of symphonic richness and profound empathy, Ursula, Under dramatically demonstrates that no one is truly alone.

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  "lots of issues come up in this book, the questions online don't cover all of them"by Dena G. (see profile) 09/11/07

Everyone seemed to like Ursula, under. Some liked the historical parts, others the contemporary story. We talked about mixed marriages, life after Sept. 11, precocious children. Some thoughts were... (read more)

 
  "This book could use a good editor"by Terye R. (see profile) 08/15/07

This book had a great concept. A young girl falls down an old mine shaft and as she decends the "voices" and lives of her ancestors emerge. I felt the book was too long and i found that i wanted to know... (read more)

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