She is a European Jew, possibly a concentration camp survivor (ruined by the war, in any case), an actress and teller of Tarot stories, sunk in the secrets of her early life in Nazi-occupied Europe, and swept by madness. He is a child of the American city grown into a man of “preposterous idealisms and unfettered violence,” a devotee of popular science and a builder of small models and machines. Grandfather and grandmother are rich and complex characters. Memoir or fiction, the contents spill out of the grandfather in the week before his death. The other main characters are grandfather, grandmother, mother (but on p. Only the narrator is named, as Mike Chabon. It is also a moving love story, and a valentine to his grandparents. MICHAEL CHABON’S latest novel, Moonglow, is a terrific achievement, an assured and dazzling re-encounter with the familiar contours of (Jewish) America in the 20th century. Discussed in this essay: Moonglow, by Michael Chabon.
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