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It’s not very often that I read a book that I just don’t like very much.  The back cover of Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union is replete with admirable praise for the work using words like “awesome, breathtaking, dazzling” to describe the novel. While I can appreciate the narrative strength and the alternate history of the settlement of Jews in Sitka Alaska and the threat of their imminent eviction from the territory, the book took so many twists and turns that I just lost interest at times. Continue reading →