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For 60 years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the federal district of Sitka, a short-term safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the surprising 1948 collapse of the fledgling express of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and sophisticated frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the district is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their desire is coming to a finish. Homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the district police has enough problems without worrying about the future Reversion. His life is a shambles, his relationship a wreck, his job a tragedy. And in the cheap hotel where Landsman has washed up, someone has just dedicated a murder - right under his nose area. When he starts to research the getting rid of of his neighbor, a previous chess prodigy, word comes down from on high that the case is usually to be fell immediately, and Landsman finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of trust, obsession, evil, and salvation that are his traditions. At once a gripping whodunit, a love history, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon may have written.
