Chain of fools

Hello lovelies! Exciting times over here. The uncorrected proof of my upcoming book Wounds: New Openings Into Old Stories arrived today so we are busy proofreading it to get it ready for publication.

This illustration is a poem that re-imagines a traditional tale. It is a tale of extreme unfairness where a father sells his daughter. In the traditional story he metaphorically sells her down the river with his lies, but in parts of the world daughter's bodies are being bargained for every day.

Can you guess the fairy tale?