Moonglow

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By Michael Chabon

In 1989, in a house in Oakland, a dying man on painkillers starts talking, and his grandson listens for a week.

What comes out is a life: a mail-order novelty company, a war spent hunting German rocket scientists, a marriage to a French woman with a number on her arm and a past she will not describe, a spell in prison, and a lifelong obsession with rockets and the moon. A novel presented as a memoir, about the parts of a family that only get told once.

First published 2016