kristykay22 's review for:

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

4.0

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I love detective novels, and I liked the book of Chabon's short stories that I read a couple years ago, so I was pretty sure I would like this too. The mystery itself is sometimes too coincidentally connected to the (excellently drawn) detective and sometimes overly broad, but the mystery isn't nearly the best part of this book. The best part is the alternate history and the created world of Sitka -- the Jewish homeland in Alaska that never was. Until now.