{"product_id":"the-impossible-fairytale-by-han-yujoo","title":"'The Impossible Fairytale' by Han Yujoo","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"173\" data-end=\"201\"\u003eTwo girls, unequally placed.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"203\" data-end=\"474\"\u003eMia has everything she wants and knows it. She performs it, too, parading her imported pencils and small domestic victories. The other girl barely registers, bullied by being unacknowledged, made to feel her own presence is so faint she almost slips out of the category of “person.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"476\" data-end=\"922\"\u003eAround them, the classroom runs on its own logic of no adults, no intervention—just children organising themselves into brutal hierarchies. Then the unnamed girl begins to write things into her classmates’ notebooks after school—small, intrusive sentences that don’t belong. It feels minor. It isn’t. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"954\" data-end=\"1260\"\u003eA teacher—who may or may not be the author—wakes from a dream that seems to contain the entire first half. Years later, she encounters the girl again. Definitely not a “fairy tale” and definitely a study in neglect, authorship, and the violence of childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1118\" data-end=\"1185\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGraywolf Press paperback (2017, English translation by Janet Hong). Very good condition. Light shelf wear, clean pages, no marks.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44507112407123,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-04-19T130508.122.png?v=1776567923","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-impossible-fairytale-by-han-yujoo","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}