Afterwards, he enlists in the United States Army Corps of Engineers and is selected for training in espionage. As a boy, he lives with his parents in Philadelphia and then attends Drexel Tech to obtain an engineering degree. The narrator’s grandfather lives from about 1920 to 1989. Some extended, multi-chapter anecdotes are temporarily interrupted and then resumed later, and occasionally, the narrator interjects stories of his own personal experiences as they relate to his grandparents and other family members. The anecdotes are presented in a nonlinear order, beginning in the middle of his life and then jumping back and forth to gradually reveal the larger picture of his life story. These anecdotes are presented to the reader through the narrator’s own voice and interpretation of events. The grandfather, under the influence of powerful pain medication, becomes uncharacteristically talkative and begins to relate his life story to the listening narrator. The book is structured as a series of nonlinear anecdotes, most of which are presented in a frame narrative concerning the grandfather’s last days before dying of bone cancer in 1989.
Moonglow is a novel presented as a memoir, in which the narrator (a fictionalized version of the author) recounts the lives of his grandfather and grandmother. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Chabon, Michael.
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