Moonglow
by Michael Chabon · first published 2016
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A man bears witness to his grandfather's deathbed confessions, which reveal his family's long-buried history and his involvement in a mail-order novelty company, World War II, and the space program.
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I enjoyed reading this. If you're a fan of an author writing about a passed father figure, check out Moonglow by Michael Chabon.
on “Abandoning a Cat” ↗There is a wonderful novel focusing on that point: Moonglow by Michael Chabon.
on “Where is my von Braun wheel?” ↗…really top guys were running the show in Nazi Germany until the very end, and only came to the US after Germany lost the war. See siblings comments about Mittelwerk, eg. Also Chabon's (fictional) novel Moonglow covers some of this history well.
on “China lands rover on Mars” ↗…Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad Carl Hiassan's Razor Girl Alan Moore's Jerusalem Jonathan Lethem's A Gamber's Anatomy Ha Jin's The Boat Rocker T.C. Boyle's The Terranauts Michael Chabon's Moonglow Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger I've got plenty of friends who never touch fiction because "it's not real". Preferring science, history, economics, biography and virtually anything else. But I think…
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