Katherine Min was ahead of her time. Four years after her death, her second novel proves it

On the Shelf The Fetishist By Katherine Min G.P. This explains why her posthumous publication will be marked by a substantial book tour shepherded by a legion of friends and former students and helmed by her daughter, Kayla Min Andrews, who recovered the file that became “The Fetishist.” While I was neither Min’s peer nor her student, I was a devoted reader of her work. Knopf had a crowded list that fall — the season of “The Emperor’s Children,” “Half of a Yellow Sun” and other breakthroughs — but Wilson and others worked hard to bring attention to Min. Kayla Min Andrews helped bring out “The Fetishist,” the second novel by her late mother, Katherine Min, and worked to complete it. A celebration of Katherine Min’s “The Fetishist” will take place at Village Well Books & Coffee in Culver City on Jan. 23 at 6 p.m.