It lays a trail of breadcrumbs that will lead us through his life. The story of the grandfather - he has no other name, nor does the grandmother, the novel's other star - begins with a hair-raising and darkly funny chapter about the time he tried to kill his boss back in 1957. Counting those beans just gets in the way of the story.Īnd Moonglow is all about storytelling. Is it true, is it the real story of Chabon's grandfather? Who cares? All fiction is autobiographical to some degree, and none of it is entirely. As Moonglow tells it, he unwound quite a tale.
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