ursula, under
by ingrid Hill | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0224075012 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0224075012 Global Overview for this book
Registered by keeta1 of Whitianga, Waikato-Coromandel New Zealand on 1/28/2016
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Journal Entry 1 by keeta1 from Whitianga, Waikato-Coromandel New Zealand on Thursday, January 28, 2016
Amazon Editorial Review
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. Ursula's ultimate 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. Ambitious and accomplished, "Ursula, Under" is, most of all, wonderfully entertaining.
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. Ursula's ultimate 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. Ambitious and accomplished, "Ursula, Under" is, most of all, wonderfully entertaining.
Journal Entry 2 by keeta1 at By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Released 8 yrs ago (2/2/2016 UTC) at By mail / post / courier, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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Sending to VeganMedusa for the Australasia Wishlist Tag Game.
Thanks, keeta! I hope I enjoy it more than you did. :)
Journal Entry 4 by VeganMedusa at Little Free Library in Invercargill, Southland New Zealand on Thursday, December 1, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (12/1/2016 UTC) at Little Free Library in Invercargill, Southland New Zealand
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I didn't enjoy this book as much as most people, it just didn't pull me in. But it was an okay read. Hopefully someone else will enjoy it now.