The Fetishist Katherine Min by Katherine Min 9780593713662, 0593713664 instant download after payment.

On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . & then nothing goes as planned.

The Fetishist is the story of three people—Kyoko, a Japanese American punk-rock singer full of rage & grief; Daniel, a philandering violinist forced to confront the wreckage of his past; & Alma, the love of Daniel’s life, a Korean American cello prodigy long adored for her beauty, passion, & talent, but who spends her final days examining if she was ever, truly, loved.

An exuberant, provocative story that confronts race, complicity, visibility, & ideals of femininity, The Fetishist was written before the celebrated author’s untimely death in 2019. Startlingly prescient, as wise & powerful as it is utterly delightful, this novel cements Katherine Min’s legacy as a writer with a singular voice for our times.

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Katherine Min‘s short stories appeared in Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The Three-penny Review, Glimmer Train, & others; she received an NEA grant, a Pushcart Prize, a Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, two New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Fellowships & a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship, & attended residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Jentel, Ucross, Hambidge, the Millay Colony, & Ledig House. Her debut novel Secondhand World was a runner-up for the PEN-Bingham Award in 2007. The Fetishist is her first posthumous publication.

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