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Katherine Min

Biography

Katherine Min

Katherine Min‘s short stories appeared in Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner and others. She received an NEA grant, a Pushcart Prize, a Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, two New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Fellowships and a North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship, and attended residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Jentel, Ucross, Hambidge, the Millay Colony and 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.

Katherine Min

Books by Katherine Min

The Fetishist
by Katherine Min - Fiction, Women's Fiction

On a cold, gloomy night, 23-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother and 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…and then nothing goes as planned. THE FETISHIST is the story of three people --- Kyoko, a Japanese American punk-rock singer full of rage and grief; Daniel, a philandering violinist forced to confront the wreckage of his past; and Alma, the love of Daniel’s life, a Korean American cello prodigy long adored for her beauty, passion and talent, but who spends her final days examining if she was ever, truly, loved.