Michael Chabon is one of my favorite storytellers. Here he turns center stage over to a man who may have been his grandfather, and lets the memories still out.
From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth, a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir,
