Coming June 30, 2026
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THE LOOM TREE
An adult literary fantasy written for all of us children of fairy tales, about preserving our stories and histories and passing them on, defying those who seek to deny, diminish or erase us.
My take on “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” and Ungnyeo the Bear Woman of Korean origin myth, set on a college campus and stretching across a dual timeline between a mother and a daughter. Also featuring a moody musician son of Bluebeard, a fragile daughter of a lesser Cinderella, and many other borderless, cross-cultural figures of fairy tale, folklore, and proto-myth spanning continents.
A love letter to the study of interdisciplinary liberal arts and to coming-of-age narratives of adolescence and motherhood, full of mythic and pop-cultural archetypes and identity-cultivation through music, literature, film, fashion, infatuation and desire.
“Magical, surreal, and wonderfully eccentric. It wouldn't be fair to compare The Loom Tree to The Secret History or Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, but if both those books had a fever dream, it might approximate this book. The Loom Tree manifests its own subgenre—fairytale dark academia, perhaps?—with audacious swagger, and reckons with the past by reckoning with the scope of story. I highly recommend for lovers of fairytales and mythology, particularly for anyone who longed to see themselves in those stories, or who searched for a story where they could belong.” —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six
“The Loom Tree is an alchemical gyre of myth and family history, friendship and song, all expertly woven into a delightful tale of magical academia. It is endlessly surprising and immensely moving—a story of stories reclaimed, reinvented, and set free.”—Jedediah Berry, Crawford Award-winning author of The Naming Song
“From the moment I first stepped into the world of The Loom Tree, I was swept up in its spell. Angela Mi Young Hur has woven a fever dream of a modern fairy tale within the pages of a book that is at once an innovative campus novel, a reclamation of lost heritage, and a deep-dive into the world’s myths, all with a resonant and deeply human Korean-American experience beating at its fantastical heart.” —Lynn D. Jung, author of Mothsblood
Folklorn is available in all formats
Korean translation coming soon from Open Books!
(Optioned by AMC TV Networks long ago) 
FOLKLORN
“Ghost story, family saga, parable, feminist reimagined myth: Angela Mi Young Hur’s hugely ambitious Folklorn is a spellbinding shape-shifter of a novel that tackles questions of race, culture, and history head-on, exploring the blurry boundaries between past and present, fact and fantasy, and personal and cultural—or cosmic.”
— CELESTE NG, author of OUR MISSING HEARTS and LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE