A review by seanhatesnamerestrictions
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

5.0

This book is so good. I didn't want to put it down. It's filled with detective tropes, but kept fresh by the detailed, believable alt history setting and characters of the Alaskan Jewish metropolis of Sitka. What starts as an alcoholic detective trying to solve a murder grows massively in scope.

I discovered when I got to the end that there's a glossary...which would have been really helpful, because the book has a ton of Yiddish, a lot of which is Sitka slang unique to the book.