Ingrid Hill is the author of a collection of stories,Dixie Church Interstate Blues.SHe earned her PhD in English at the University of Iowa and has twice received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.She is the mother of twelve children,including two sets of twins,and lives in Iowa City.

An amazing feat of imagination．This debut iS hard to fault’Daily Mail "Its cannily intertwined narrative re—validates the great melting-pot ideal’Observer "Mind-knowning． An enlightening, gripping read’Eve ‘An epic formula that， thanks tO the author"s noifrills execution,works remarkably well．The cumulative weight of family history lends tlle novel emotional heft’Independent ‘Ursnla，Unde never ceases to surprise and compel．What a grand and daring book’ Brady Udall，author of The Aliracle Life of Edear Hint A dangerous rescue attempt in Michigan has capttued the attention of the entire county.A two-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft．Ursula Wongis from a poor family and referred to by one member of the TV audience as‘half-breed trailer trash’，not worth all the expense． But Ursula is the last of her family line， and her story．explodes into a gorgeous saga of culture,．history and heredity． Ursula"s forebears jnclude a second-century—BC Chinese alchemist；an orphaned consort tO a Swedish．queen； and her great-great—-grandfather,Jake Maid，a miner who died in a cave-in aged twenty—nine．

1．URSULA

2．THE ALCHEMIST’S LAST CONCUBINE

3．JUSTIN

4．THE CARAVAN—MASTER"S LIEUTENANT

5．ANNIE

6．THE MINISTER OF MAPS

7. JUSTINANDANNIE

8．A FOUNDLING AT THE COURT

9．JINX

10．A WASTREL IfiLLED BY A SNAIL

11．MINDY JiAND JOE

12．THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED THEBAKER"S FRIEND

13．URSULA AGAIN