Moonglow follows the man only ever known as “my grandfather” from his South Philadelphia childhood to his service in World War II to his retirement in Florida. Narrated by a character who shares Chabon’s name and biography, the book is styled as a memoir based on the stories the narrator’s grandfather tells on his deathbed. It hitches the intimacy of a family story to the universality of humanity’s dream of reaching outer space. Michael Chabon’s latest novel, Moonglow, rides the wave of that myth. Enough time has passed now for that story to enter into the realm of myth. In the canonical story of the 20th century, America rides triumphantly out of the darkness of World War II and into the light of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
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