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n achingly poignant vibe
of sweet and soulful ide-
alism makes itself heard
throughout Michael Chabon's
latest novel, Telegraph Avenue
(HarperCollins). While it's set
in Oakland, Calif., in 2004, the
novel's realistic backdrop belies
the romanticized wistfulness that
lies at the core of Chabon's lively
portrait of a community where
blacks and whites, Jews and
Christians, politicians of every
party, all manage to overcome
their own latent (and sometimes
blatant) prejudices to settle con-
flicts, both personal and public,
and live peacefully together.
It's a vision infused with a
sense of tikkun olam, the desire
ity, in which the historic coalition
to repair the world, and given
Chabon's concerns in his previous
between Jews and blacks fighting
works, perhaps that is no wonder.
together for civil rights and social
This is the 13th book by the
justice had never been strained and
49-year-old Chabon, who
still endures. It's a dream
worth imagining, and
remains best known for
two novels whose central
Chabon does so with skill,
charm and no small amount
themes speak to Jewish his-
tory.
of virtuosic writing.
The common element
The Adventures of
Kavalier e9. Clay, which
that brings out the universal
won the Pulitzer Prize for
humanity of Chabon's diverse
--A43,
fiction in 2001, tells the
cast of characters — and ulti-
story of two Jewish cousins, Michael
mately, despite a multitude
Chabon
one a refugee from Hitler's
of plot complications, brings
Europe, in New York in the
them together — is music
in general and jazz, soul,
1940s, and their creation
of a comic book hero bent on foiling
Motown, gospel, classic rock and
the Nazis.
bluesy oldies in particular.
The Yiddish Policeman's Union,
Indeed, Chabon conjures a win-
published in 2007, posited an
ning soundtrack from the eclectic
alternative reality in which Israel
bins of Brokeland Records, the used
was never founded, and a stop-gap
vinyl record store located on the cen-
Jewish homeland, Yiddish-speaking
trally located but rundown block of
Federal District of Sitka, located in
Telegraph Avenue where most of the
Alaska, was established instead.
action takes place. (In a cute trick
Chabon's interest in Judaism and
that reflects his characters' fanati-
cal music fixation, Chabon lovingly
Jewish culture is evident in several
of his other works, as well.
catalogues in parentheses the album
And Telegraph Avenue has a
title, record company and date of
Jewish soul, too, that at first seems
production whenever even the most
to go no deeper than a handful of
obscure music track is mentioned
Yiddish phrases falling easily off the
or goes through a character's mind.
tongues of characters of every eth-
That alone will make the book a
nicity, including a few nominal Jews.
must for any true aficionado of jazz
or vinyl.)
Yet, reading this novel, I couldn't
escape the feeling that it also takes
Brokeland acts as more than a
place in a kind of alternative real-
store; it's the neighborhood's unof-
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