taralaska 's review for:

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
3.0

I was poised to really like this book, given that it's alternate history set in Alaska... but I was mostly disappointed. It really didn't have much Alaska-ness to it (although maybe if I'd been to Sitka I'd feel differently), and it was really just a mystery, and didn't have much focus on the alternate history nature of the setup. And it took over half the book to even figure out that it was primarily a mystery. I just wasn't that into it.