NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERWinner of the Sophie Brody Medal•An NBCC Finalist for 2016 Award for Fiction•ALA Carnegie Medal Finalist for Excellence in Fiction• Wall Street Journal’s Best Novel of the Year•ANew York TimesNotable Book of the Year•AWashington PostBest Book of the Year•An NPR Best Book of the Year•ASlateBest Book of the Year•AChristian Science MonitorTop 15 Fiction Book of the Year•ANew York MagazineBest Book of the Year•ASan Francisco ChronicleBook of the Year•ABuzzfeedBest Book of the Year•ANew York PostBest Book of the YeariBooks Novel of the Year•An Amazon Editors' Top 20 Book of the Year•#1 Indie Next Pick•#1 Amazon Spotlight Pick•ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice•ABookPageTop Fiction Pick of the Month•An Indie Next Bestseller"This book is beautiful.”—A.O. Scott,New York Times Book Review, cover reviewFollowing on the heels of hisNew York Timesbestselling novelTelegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us.In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel,The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland, California, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred by the imminence of death, Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novelMoonglow, the latest feat of legerdemain from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon.Moonglowunfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness, of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination.From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison, 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,Moonglowis Chabon at his most moving and inventive.