I like alternate history, Alaska, and a decent mystery novel.This was awful. The first Chabon book I read was, of course, "Kavalier and Clay." It was great, so I read "Mysteries of Pittsburgh," which was disappointing. This was just awful. I didn't understand what was going on most of the time, I couldn't figure out what the Yiddish meant, the writing was choppy, and the plot didn't seem to be able to make up its mind about which way it wanted to go.I only finished it because I had nothing else to do when I was at work. If I had thought to bring some logic problems with me, I would have given up on this mess about 100 pages in.