Moonglow was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction.Following on the heels of his New York Times best-selling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure - and the forces that work to destroy us.
The book was discussed in January 2017 on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review. Although 'Moonglow' grows overly discursive at times, it is never less than compelling when it sticks to the tale of Mike's grandparents - these damaged survivors of World War II who bequeath to their family a legacy of endurance, and an understanding of the magic powers of storytelling to provide both solace and transcendence". Chabon weaves these knotted-together tales together into a tapestry that’s as complicated, beautiful and flawed as an antique carpet. Sacks said, " Moonglow is a movingly bittersweet novel that balances wonder with lamentation." For The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani found that, "Mr. Sam Sacks writing for The Wall Street Journal appreciated the non-fiction elements of the novel in contrast to Chabon's other works. It starts with the narrator stating how his grandfather got arrested. The story is sort of a memoir, jumping around in time. Throughout the book, the grandfather's name is not referred to. The novel is about the story of the author's (Chabon) grandfather. The narrator functions as a proxy for the author, Chabon. Chabon tells the story using a mixture of strict memoir and creative fiction writing. The book chronicles the life of Chabon's grandfather, a WW2 soldier, engineer and rocket enthusiast who marries a troubled Jewish survivor from France and lives a challenging, wandering life in postwar America. Moonglow is a 2016 novel by Michael Chabon.
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