'The Yiddish Policemen's Union' by Michael Chabon - Los Angeles Times

'The Yiddish Policemen's Union' by Michael Chabon - Los Angeles Times: "Chabon's new novel, 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union,' is, finally, a spiritual descendant of 'Kavalier & Clay,' a book that expands on the sensibility of the earlier novel and its roots in Jewish storytelling. It is very good — let's just say that at the outset — a larger-than-life folk tale set in an alternate universe version of the present where issues of exile and belonging, of identity, nationality, freedom and destiny are examined through a funhouse mirror that renders them opaque and recognizable all at once. "