His novel "The Yiddish Policemen's Union", an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel "Gentlemen of the Road" appeared in book form in the fall of the same year. In 2012 Chabon published "Telegraph Avenue", billed as "a twenty-first century "Middlemarch"," concerning the tangled lives of two families in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004. He followed "Telegraph Avenue" in November 2016 with his latest novel, "", a fictionalized memoir of his maternal grandfather, based on his deathbed confessions under the influence of powerful painkillers in Chabon's mother's California home in 1989.