Ursula, Under
 

Ursula, Under

by Ingrid Hill

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... (read more)

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Beautifully written interconnected short stories which link to form a history, a genealogy for a little girl who has dropped into an abandoned mine shaft. Hill takes the readers back into China, Finland, Sweden, California, and finally the Upper Peninsula of Michigan tracing the lives of Ursula's forebears in a way which shows the humanity of such desperately different people.

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