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The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
2.0

I persevered with this...and I'm glad I did because I was interested in finding out whether they would solve the murder.

But I feel like Chabron's writing, although clever and witty at times, was just too much. I was so confused and lost at times. I feel like he could have done the same story in half the size of the novel.

Sadly, this novel wasn't a page-turner for me. Towards the end I found myself just skirting over his long paragraphs of descriptive narrative to get to the good bits.