[quotes tbc] 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 suicide. Tonight there will be repercussions. Following the
unsuspecting Daniel home Kyoko manages to get a reckless kidnapping plot off the ground. . .
and then nothing goes as planned. This 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 and talent but who spends her final days asking if she was
ever truly loved. Provocative and hilariously savage The Fetishist confronts race complicity
visibility and ideals of femininity cementing the late Katherine Min's legacy as a writer with
a singular voice for our times.
