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Moonglow michael chabon summary5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() And since we meet each character at various stages of life, in various settings, the book moves quicker, more efficiently, than Chabon’s earlier works. As in his short stories, Chabon proves more than able to render a whole person over the course of a single paragraph. Like his novels, the action builds quite late in the game, and upon mountains of description. If we consider the novel a race and the memoir a marathon, Chabon has been training for Moonglow his whole career. In the book’s disjointed, at times jarring narrative, Chabon gets to choose what sticks. Instead, his first few chapters cover a nighttime caper (a setting familiar to many of Chabon’s novels), an unfortunate kitten, and a particularly creative way to use a letter opener. ![]() Chabon rejects the idea outright, calling it “kind of trite.” For this, he catches a balled up Kleenex to the face. Chabon illustrates this point at the de facto climax of Moonglow, when his grandfather finally concedes to his grandson’s imagination the rights to his own story, all done up with “fancy metaphors.” The grandfather was born during a lunar eclipse, and he asks his grandson to start the book with that fact. ![]()
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