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Temple Sinai Book Group

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 7 Sh'vat 5785

1:15 PM - 2:30 PMLockhart Lounge

February's book is "Moonglow" by Michael Chabon.

All are welcome!

Organizer Anne Faigen would appreciate a ride from someone attending the book discussion. Please contact her at (412) 422-9580 if you are able to give her a ride. (She lives close to Temple Sinai.)

ABOUT THE BOOK 
Moonglow unfolds 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, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive.

(Source: https://www.amazon.com/Moonglow-Novel-Michael-Chabon/dp/0062225553)

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