Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves thebizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg in Moon Palace Fogg goes through aperiod of time when he nearly starves himself to death out of poverty anddejection, is rescued by a beautiful Chinese girl named Kitty Wu, and endsup as the live-in helper to an invalid old man, the recording of whose lifestory becomes Marco's obsession and the focus of the novel