“This is how I heard the story” is how the narrator begins - after an author’s note stating, in part, “I have stuck to facts except when facts refused to conform with memory, narrative purpose, or the truth as I prefer to understand it.” His newest novel, “Moonglow,” is a sweeping family history couched in the conceit of a literary memoir, a multi-generational saga in which children and grandchildren seek to make sense of their fathers’ secrets, lies and loves. And I didn’t.”Ĭhabon is a father now himself he and his wife, writer Ayelet Waldman, have four children.
What I think what I wanted was to have a dad who wanted to be a dad, in a way that William in that story wanted to be a father. In one of the essays included in the 2009 collection “Manhood for Amateurs,” the writer traced his own longing to be a father to his childhood affection for the “Free to Be … You and Me” animated television special, which included a cartoon segment of the song “William Wants A Doll.” “It meant so much to me,” Chabon said in a phone interview from his home in Berkeley. Fatherhood has long fascinated Michael Chabon.
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