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Ursula, Under 

Ursula, Under (2004)
A novel by Ingrid Hill

 
Awards
Orange Prize for Fiction (nominee)
In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. A two-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft and it is as if all hope for life on the planet is bound up in her rescue. Little Ursula Wong is the first and only child of a young woman of Finnish extraction and her Chinese-American husband. The Wongs live in a decrepit mobile home and their child is designated by one member of the TV audience as 'half-breed trailer trash', not worth all the attention and expense. Oh yeah? responds the story's narrative voice. Let's just see. And here the novel explodes into a grand saga of culture, history and heredity. By its end, we've met, among others of Ursula Wong's ancestors, a second-century-B.C. Chinese alchemist; an orphaned consort to a sixteenth-century Swedish queen; Professor Alabaster Wong, a Chautauqua troupe lecturer on exotic Chinese topics travelling the Midwest at the end of the nineteenth century; and Ursula's great-great-grandfather, Jake Maki, a mine worker who died in a cave-in at age twenty-nine.

 
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Hardback Editions

January 2005 : Hardback
Title: Ursula, Under
Author(s):: Ingrid Hill
ISBN: 0224075012 / 9780224075015 (UK edition)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
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December 2003 : Hardback
Title: Ursula, Under (Shannon Ravenel Books)
Author(s):: Ingrid Hill
ISBN: 1565123883 / 9781565123885 (USA edition)
Publisher: A Shannon Ravenel Book
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Paperback Editions

January 2006 : Paperback
Title: Ursula Under
Author(s):: Ingrid Hill
ISBN: 0099479869 / 9780099479864 (UK edition)
Publisher: Vintage
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June 2005 : Paperback
Title: Ursula, Under
Author(s):: Ingrid Hill
ISBN: 0143035452 / 9780143035459 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Books
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