Hill, Ingrid.

Ursula, under : a novel / by Ingrid Hill. - 1st ed. - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004. - 476 p. ; 24 cm.

"A Shannon Ravenel book."

Booklist, 5/1/2004 Library Journal, 5/1/2004 Publisher's Weekly, 5/24/2004

When a two-and-a-half-year-old girl falls down a mine shaft, the media provide hours of coverage of the rescue efforts. A viewer notes that the family lives in a mobile home and wonders why so much time is being "wasted" on the "trailer-trash kid." The novel answers this question by traveling back in time to visit young Ursula's ancestors who include a Chinese alchemist, a playmate of a Swedish queen, a Chautauqua troupe lecturer, and miner who died in a mine cave-in.

YA-Adult.

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Racially mixed children--Fiction.
Interracial marriage--Fiction.
Finnish Americans--Fiction.
Chinese Americans--Fiction.
Rescue work--Fiction.
Mine accidents--Fiction.
Poor--Fiction.
Girls--Fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Family life--Fiction.


Upper Peninsula (Mich.)--Fiction.


Suspense fiction.
Domestic fiction.

PS3558.I3886 / U77 2004

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