
Thriller
Track this book
You choose which shelves are public. Progress and read dates stay yours.
About
"In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old girl has fallen down a mine shaft - "the only sound is an astonished tiny intake of breath from Ursula as she goes down, like a penny into the slot of a bank, disappeared, gone." 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. One TV viewer following the action notes that the Wong family lives in a decrepit mobile home and…
More by Ingrid Hill
All books
More like this
Reviews
Rating integrity
HealthyCounted ratings come from accounts older than 7 days and were made on or after publication. Finished readers weigh ×1.0. Readers who have not finished yet weigh ×0.5. Did-not-finish ratings are shown but not counted.
Editions
7 editions- Other · English · 2015Penguin Random House · 9781784702137
- Other · English · 2006Vintage · 496 pages · 9780099479864
- Other · English · 2005Penguin (Non-Classics) · 512 pages · 9780143035459
- Other · English · 2005Jonathan Cape · 488 pages · 9780224075015
- Other · English · 2005Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media · 9780606334686
- Other · English · 2004Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 9781565129009
Chinese AmericansFictionFinnish AmericansGirlsInterracial marriageMine accidentsMine rescue workPoor families






