Moonglow
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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- There is a wonderful novel focusing on that point: Moonglow by Michael Chabon.
- That's not quite how it went down - the 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.
- I enjoyed reading this. If you're a fan of an author writing about a passed father figure, check out Moonglow by Michael Chabon.
- There is some remarkable fiction coming out this season by some of the best:
Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am
Zadie Smith's Swing Time
Ian McEwan's Nutshell
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 its obligatory at times. The soul requires it's own nourishment, if not more so than the body and the mind. Indulge yourself. If only because great writing will make your writing greater, as if by osmosis. But ultimately, because only fiction can uncover the truths that can't be revealed any other way ;)
