Moonlight is a masterpiece from Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shebon: a novel about truth and lies, family legends, incredible adventures and forces that seek to humiliate and destroy us. The narrator - the author's young "second self" - goes to Oakland (California) to visit his terminally ill grandfather, whose name remains unnamed in the novel. The novel unfolds as a series of confessions of this strong, courageous, but withdrawn man, whose consciousness is excited by the proximity of imminent death and powerful analgesics.