{"product_id":"ursula-under-ingrid-hill-paperback","title":"Ursula, Under -- Ingrid Hill, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA daring novel of culture, history, and heredity, hailed as \"extravagant and absorbing\" (Audrey Niffenegger, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Time Traveler's Wife\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Book World Best Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the attention of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft. It is as if all hope for life on the planet is bound up in the rescue of this little girl, the first and only child of a young woman of Finnish extraction and her Chinese-American husband. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUrsula'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, \u003ci\u003eUrsula, Under\u003c\/i\u003e is, most of all, wonderfully entertaining.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ingrid Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6\/28\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.02\" H x 5.3\" L x 1.12\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780143035459\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67747438494000,"sku":"9780143035459","price":25.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780143035459.jpg?v=1788797481","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/ursula-under-ingrid-hill-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}