“Moonglow,” which comes out this week, is Chabon’s “first faux-memoir novel,” as he put it. The element of creating scale models, which is pretty grounded in ‘Moonglow,’ is present in nearly all of my books.” “But, of course, the more accurate your scale model is, the more likely it is to show the cracks. “Scale models try to approximate a whole world, a world that doesn’t have a crack,” Chabon explained, mentioning Wes Anderson’s meticulously constructed cinematic worlds. It also prompted him to find refuge in made-up places. It really affected my way of seeing everything thereafter.” “After that happened, not only did I see that my world was broken but, in fact, that brokenness was everywhere in one way or another. “When my parents separated and divorced, it completely upended everything that I thought I knew,” Chabon said recently, on the phone from his home, in Berkeley, California. When Michael Chabon was eleven years old, he decided that the world was a broken place.
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