The Yiddish Policeme's Union by Michael Chabon

I've read Michael Chabon's latest nobel which is convoluted as they come It is a genre-bending alternate-history detective tale, The Yiddish Policemen's Union which operates under the fictional Jewish that the Askan own of Sitka became a temporary Yiddish-speaking safe haven for European Jewish refugees following World War II and the collapse of Israel in 1948. Now , 60 years later, the town's "temporary" status has expired and Sitka is in danger or reverting to American control and once again displacing thousands of Jewish emigres from what has certainly become their home. Within all this context, the stranged so of Sitka's most notorious mob boss has turned up dead, and homicide detective Meyer Landsman must close the case before the reversion. The story may sound overstuffed, but it is handled with deftness and focus, and though perhaps it' not Chabon's best work to date, the pure imagination fueling this book makes it well worth the read .