The 2025 Louisiana Book Festival will be held on Saturday, November 1.
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Kayla Min Andrews

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Kayla Min Andrews has been published in The Massachusetts Review, Lit Hub, Cagibi, and elsewhere. She was nominated for a Best of the Net and was a finalist in the Tennessee Williams Festival's Very Short Fiction Contest. Andrews assisted Putnam on the posthumous publication of her mother's novel The Fetishist, including editing the manuscript. She is an MFA candidate in fiction at Randolph College and is working on a novel. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

  

Schedule

2:00 pm to 2:45 pm

State Library Seminar Center

The Fetishist: A Novel by Katherine Min

with Kayla Min Andrews and moderator Megan Holt

 

3:00 pm to 3:45 pm

Cavalier House Books Tent

Book Signing

The Fetishist by Katherine Min

An Indie Next Pick

In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s revenge on the man who caused her mother’s death sets off a series of unexpected reckonings.

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 . . . 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.

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