One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016, this remarkable novel from Daedalus favorite Michael Chabon is in many ways a memoir. In 1989, fresh from the publication of his debut The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon visited his terminally ill grandfather in California. Inspired perhaps by the nearness of death as much as by the painkillers he was taking, the usually taciturn man shared recollections and told stories that Chabon had never heard before, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried. From that dreamlike week of revelations comes this "beautifully written hybrid, [in which] a San Francisco writer named Mike presents a memoir about his grandparents, a World War II soldier and a Holocaust survivor" (NYTBR).