I'm sure this is true of kids of my generation all over the world, in parts of the world that got consumed by the Second World War. All there was for me to know about it was what I could read in books, or see on television or in the movies, or hear people around me talking about. I was born in '63, so 18 years after the end of the war. Michael Chabon: To some degree, I think it's simply a function of the fact that I was born and grew up both very close to World War II and yet at a complete and unbridgeable remove from World War II, as well, in that I was born well after it. What is it about this point in American history, and the particular characteristics of the people who came of age in the shadow of World War II, that keeps calling you back? Rhianna Walton: A trace of nostalgia for mid-20th century America and the Greatest Generation runs through much of your fiction, and Moonglow is no exception.
A love story that questions the value of storytelling, Moonglow is a thoughtful, funny, and engrossing novel.
Based on the stories that the narrator, the fictional Mike Chabon, hears at his dying grandfather’s bedside, Moonglow investigates the horrors and ambiguities of WWII, the rise of the American space program, the nature of testimony, and a grandmother’s madness. Chabon’s work is notable for his masterful use of language and ability to blend literary and genre styles to create highly imaginative worlds that reveal emotional and historical truths to the reader.Ĭhabon’s newest book, Moonglow, is a sly, quasi-autobiographical novel posing as a memoir. Michael Chabon is the award-winning novelist behind The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, The Final Solution, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Wonder Boys, and Telegraph Avenue, in addition to two short story collections, a YA novel, and, with Dark Horse Comics, The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist.
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