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A dangerous rescue attempt in Michigan has captured the attention of the entire country. A two-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft. Ursula Wong is the only child of a poor family and referred to by one member of the TV audience as 'half-breed trailer trash', not worth all the expense.
But Ursula is the last of her family line and her story explodes into a gorgeous saga of culture, history and heredity. Ursula's forebears include a second-century BC Chinese alchemist; an orphaned consort to a Swedish queen; and Ursula's great-great-grandfather, Jake Maki, a miner who died in a cave-in aged twenty-nine.
Ursula's fate echoes those of her ancestors, many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that any given individual's life comes to seem a miracle.
But Ursula is the last of her family line and her story explodes into a gorgeous saga of culture, history and heredity. Ursula's forebears include a second-century BC Chinese alchemist; an orphaned consort to a Swedish queen; and Ursula's great-great-grandfather, Jake Maki, a miner who died in a cave-in aged twenty-nine.
Ursula's fate echoes those of her ancestors, many of whom so narrowly escaped not being born that any given individual's life comes to seem a miracle.
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[Hill] astounds with her ability to meld simply and beautifully told stories, stories with an air of fable about them. ("The Washington Post Book World") 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") Extravagant and absorbing ... I didn?t want it to end. (Audrey Niffenegger, author of "The Time Traveler's Wife")
"[Hill] astounds with her ability to meld simply and beautifully told stories, stories with an air of fable about them." The Washington Post Book World
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"[Hill] astounds with her ability to meld simply and beautifully told stories, stories with an air of fable about them." The Washington Post Book World
"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
"‘A chronicle of lives as strange and fantastical as fairy-tales...An amazing feat of imagination...a delight of design. For colour and ambition this debut is hard to fault’ Daily Mail
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1784702137
- ISBN 13 9781784702137
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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