![]() ![]() “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union” remains my favorite, but with “Moonglow” you get what you expect from Chabon: an emotional tale of love and loss fabulous, at times magical, writing and a story rooted in real-world events told from a unique perspective. However, the grandfather prepared for her bouts of madness: “She was always threatening rain he had been born with an umbrella.” The emotional connection between the three generations is told, as we learn of Mike’s relationship with his mother and hers in turn with her parents. ![]() They met in post-war Baltimore and their marriage bonds suffer from the wife’s traumatic war-time experiences in German-occupied France in the form of hallucinations and acting out. At the center of the story is the loving but tortured relationship between the narrator’s grandparents. Crossing continents and time itself, the story arcs from the search for the scientist who led the Nazi program to build the V-2 rockets that terrorized Britain during the war. ![]()
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