The CVUU Book Lovers’ Group meets regularly via Zoom for book chats on novels (historical fiction, science fiction, and other genres) and non-fiction. The group provides intellectual stimulation and builds relationships.

Our next discussion is on Saturday, April 27th of “The Fetishist” by Katherine Min.

This book is a darkly humorous and provocative novel of love, revenge, and identity published after the author died in 2019. 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 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.

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.

Here are the upcoming reads:

Contact organizer Vicki C. at landline (757) 638-0737 or Cell phone (757) 469-1397 vickicaminer@gmail.com or contact the C-VUU office, 757-627-5371 for more information. All are welcome! (The discussions are great!)

And for more book talk, try out the Facebook group CVUU’s Bookworms. It’s a private group on Facebook, set up in January 2020 to share news of CVUU’s two book clubs, The Novel Ideas Book Club and the CVUU Book Lovers.

If book clubs are not your thing, but books are, you do not have to be a member of either book club to join the group! The page is chock-full of book talk and fellowship outside of scheduled reads and news of meetups.  

Find them on Facebook and request to join by clicking here: CVUU’S BOOKWORMS