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From Publishers Weekly [Signature] Reviewed by Jess WalterThey are the ''frozen Chosen,'' two million people living, dying and kvetching in Sitka, Alaska, the temporary homeland established for displaced World War II Jews in Chabon's ambitious and entertaining new novel. It is—deep breath now—a murder-mystery speculative-history Jewish-identity noir chess thriller, so perhaps it's no surprise that, in the back half of the book, the moving parts become unwieldy; Chabon is juggling narrative chainsaws here.The novel begins—the same way that Philip Roth launched The Plot Against America —with a fascinating historical footnote: what if, as Franklin Roosevelt proposed on the eve of World War II, a temporary Jewish settlement had been established on the Alaska panhandle? Roosevelt's plan went nowhere, but Chabon runs the idea into the present, back-loading his tale with a haunting history. Israel failed to get a foothold in the Middle East, and since the Sitka solution was only temporary, Alaskan Jews are about to lose their cold homeland. The book's timeless refrain: ''It's a strange time to be a Jew.''Into this world arrives Chabon's Chandler-ready hero, Meyer Landsman, a drunken ro

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Author

Chabon, Michael

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062124586

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Fiction, History

Rating

4.1 / 5 (2,508 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14