The Loom Tree

Praise for Angela Mi Young Hur

“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. With audacious swagger, The Loom Tree reckons with the past by reckoning with the scope of story.” —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six

“The lush, magical prose and exploration of storytelling power will appeal to fans of Patricia A. McKillip, Wen-yi Lee, and Andrea Hairston… . A truly entrancing novel about the way stories woven through family, heritage, and history can imprison the unwary when unchallenged.” —Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW for The Loom Tree

“Weaves the danger and intrigue of dark academia with the enchantment and resonance of story: the secret histories of our families, the folk tales that untangle ancestral memories and tap into our intertwined roots, and the tales we write and rewrite for ourselves just as we are coming into our own power. Mesmerizing.” —Laura Ruby, Two-Time National Book Award Finalist and Author of Bone Gap on The Loom Tree

“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.” —Jedediah Berry, Crawford Award-winning author of The Naming Song

“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 on The Loom Tree

“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, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere on Folklorn

“Dark, difficult, and riveting—Folklorn gave me endless trouble, and I appreciate it.” —R. F. Kuang, New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Katabasis

“An elegant punch to the face … beautiful and hard and hungry, full of sharp, painful observations, slicing clichés open like prickly pears and devouring their hearts.” —The New York Times Book Review on Folklorn

“Vivid and delectable. Angela Hur is equally at home working in the fertile territories of myth and the fantastic as in the nuanced portrayal of a contemporary, complex family.” —Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The Book of Love, on Folklorn

“A gorgeous journey into the intersection of science and myth and how our past traumas shape us—but how they need not define us.” —NPR, Best Books of the Year on Folklorn

“Hur’s mixing and melding of genres is an inventive, elegant means of illuminating the dualities of diasporic experience, as well as a testament to the essential role of stories in understanding our identities.” —Peter Ho Davies, author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself, on Folklorn

“Hur writes with virtuosity and power, weaving together the ribbons of the mythic with the complex tapestry of family and history to create a gorgeous, moving whole.” —Kat Howard, Alex Award-winning author of An Unkindness of Magicians, on Folklorn

“A beautiful, liminal exploration of the world, physics, and complex families born and found, told with an added rush of the fantastic.” —Fran Wilde, Nebula Award-winning author of Updraft and Riverland, on Folklorn

“Brash, defiant and ultimately full of yearning.” —Chia-Chia Lin, author of The Unpassing, on Folklorn

“A complex meditation on intergenerational trauma… . The honest look at prickly Elsa’s internalized racism is ambitious but often brutal in its unflinching execution… . This thought-provoking work will appeal to SFF fans who like their talk of particle physics side by side with fox spirits and fairy tales.” —Publishers Weekly on Folklorn

“Haunting and spiritual and touching, and so unique. This is absolutely one to be cherished.” —Tor.com, “30 Most Anticipated Books of the Year,” on Folklorn

Angela Mi Young Hur is the acclaimed author of The Loom Tree, The Queens of K-Town, and Folklorn, which was an Indie Next Pick and a Best Book of the Year at NPR and The New York Times.

Previously a teacher at Writopia and the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea, she holds a B.A. in English from Harvard and an MFA in Creative Writing from Notre Dame, where she won the Sparks Fellowship and the Sparks Prize.

Originally from California, she now lives with her family in Sweden.

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.