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Jan 27, 2020kmcdouall rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Chabon turns memories from his grandfather into a quasi-biographical, rambling narrative of post-World War II life in America. The book has its high points--the treatment of Chabon's grandmother's mental illness and eventual hospitalization, the fascination with rockets and excitement of the Apollo missions, and the anger that America's advances in aerospace came with the help of a Nazi scientist--but Moonglow fails to generate any consistent rhythm or coherence. It's an interesting experiment in combining memory and fiction, and doesn't gel as a novel.