The Oyster Diaries Yeji Y. Ham and legendary activist Angela Davis

and legendary activist Angela Davis

and in his middle-grade debut

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A man stands there with his family

The Oyster Diaries Yeji Y. Ham and legendary activist Angela DavisBy: Nancy Lemann Published by New York Review of Books, 2026 04 07 From the author of the cult classic Lives of the Saints, a diaristic novel of middle aged reckoning that roves from Washington, D. C. to New Orleans, from court records to Don Giovanni, all of it riotously narrated by one of American fictions most singular voices. Delery Anhaltmiddle aged, prone to embroidering everything into vast ideals like Don Quixote, but incapable of identifying