{"product_id":"the-loom-tree","title":"The Loom Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Angela Mi Young Hur\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Kensington Publishing Corp, 2026-06-30\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNinth House\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eBabel \u003c\/i\u003efor fans of myth and folklore in this contemporary fantasy about a Korean-American college student at a magical university where fairy tales intersect with family heritage to unleash powers beyond imagining.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“You always wanted magic to be real.”\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sharon and her daughter V’s points of origin hold common threads: both Korean American teenagers, raised by a single mother, each searching for her identity in the California suburbs. But during finals week, high schooler V experiences strange impulses during a last-day celebration with her friends and ends up crawling into the hollow trunk of an immense tree. That night, after breaking into a raging fever, V sees gleaming strands of illegible text hovering over her body: a script that flows between her and her mother, leading to Sharon’s long-forgotten diary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the aid of a luminous quill, a fountainhead of Sharon’s uncontrollable memories spill onto the old diary pages. Unexpectedly, V witnesses Sharon as she maps out her time at college in the form of lost histories, diagrams, and drawings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoung Sharon once accepted a backhanded invitation to Alvsdahl, an exclusive East Coast college as storied and white as Camelot. Here legacies and heiresses claimed descent from Bluebeard or Cinderella, grappling for control over narratives that could grant them terrifying abilities or burn them to ash. An Asian girl with an unknown inheritance was no one—until Sharon’s discoveries began to crack open Alvsdahl’s secrets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer bewitching narrative of classroom rivalries and animal professors, debauchery in the woods and sleeping princesses, threatening Godmothers and world-shattering powers, unfold as V desperately tries to help her mother—only to see how Sharon’s story is destined to transform them both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLyrically written and highly imaginative, Angela Mi Young Hur’s \u003ci\u003eThe Loom Tree\u003c\/i\u003e is a magical campus novel centering on two young women walking the thorny path toward adulthood, the fractures between parents and their children, and the global mythologies and family sagas that connect us all together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47225133727913,"sku":"PHBK-9781645660880","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/25513133482773.jpg?v=1782493419","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/the-loom-tree","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}