After 20 years away from the public spotlight, best-selling author Nancy Lemann is returning to the forefront of the literary community with her brilliant new novel, The Oyster Diaries.
Set in Lemann's native city of New Orleans, The Oyster Diaries follows a middle-aged woman named Delery who finds herself torn between the demands of her father and her adult daughters. Reflecting on her eventful past through various diary entries, Delery comes to terms with her delicate place in life, as well as the changing nature of her relationships to her fellow family members.
"The Oyster Diaries, the latest novel by the incomparable Nancy Lemann, is a funny and poignant portrayal of the vicissitudes of adulthood that sees the return, from her legendary debut, Lives of the Saints, of the heroic wastrel Claude Collier," The New York Review of Books said of Lemann's highly anticipated new novel.
"This is an exuberant, indignant, insightful performance, and an irresistible addition to the books that have made Lemann one of the keenest, most engaging, and simply beloved of American writers at work today," the publisher continued.
Of course, Lemann's latest novel marks the author's long-awaited return two decades after her previous novel. To this day, the celebrated novelist continues to earn renown for her earlier works, including her critically acclaimed debut book Lives of the Saints, which The New York Times went so far as to describe as "a dense, musically patterned novel" and "a finely etched picture of the South."
As with her past work, The Oyster Diaries has once again earned Lemann significant acclaim among readers and critics alike, as evidenced by the ample praise the book has received so far.
"[Lemann's] women are frank, sardonic, bookish, self-absorbed and neurotic; they stew in their own juices. They deliver jokey shoves that sometimes land like real ones," The New York Times wrote of Lemann's new book. "The author channels their discontent and delivers slashing little thunderstorms of meaning. . . . [Lemann will] put you in mind of writers such as Lorrie Moore, Lydia Davis, Mary Robison and Fran Lebowitz, the four horsewomen of the anarchapocalypse."
"Lemann takes readers back to the world of her 1985 cult classic Lives of the Saints with an easygoing and lovely . . . novel of late middle-age . . . the novel offers an indelible ode to the struggling but vital city [of New Orleans] . . . It’s well worth taking the plunge," echoedPublishers Weekly.
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