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In response, the 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.

Ursula'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, Ursula, Under is, most of all, wonderfully entertaining—a daring saga of culture, history, and heredity.]]> 2004 5 1 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 07:50:36 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 17:10:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 44507322 543401 295687 0143035452 9780143035459 102 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173479045m/295687.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173479045s/295687.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295687.Ursula_Under 3.66 397 Ursula, Under re-creates the chain of ancestors, across two thousand years, whose lives culminate in the fragile miracle of a little girl underground: a Chinese alchemist in the third century bc, the orphaned playmate to a seventeenth- century Swedish queen, Ursula's great-great-grandfather who was the casualty of a mining accident that eerily foreshadows Ursula's dilemma, and many more. 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