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As the narrator of Pulitzer Prize winner Chabon's luminous new work observes, "Keeping secrets was a family business." So he's tersely attentive when his terminally ill grandfather suddenly spills the revelations forming this narrative, which zigzags from World War II through his grandparents' complicated marriage to his grandfather's final days in Florida. Widowed and with a four-year-old daughter, his grandmother arrived in Baltimore from a displaced persons c...Log In or Sign Up to Read More