Michael Chabon's unusual novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, is set in Sitka, Alaska, a place where the Jews have lived since the imagined demise of the State of Israel in 1948. In 2008, the lease on sixty years of safe-haven in the north is due to expire and the Jews must find a new home. At the same time, one of Sitka’s citizens has physically expired. Meyer Landsman, a down-on-his-luck Sitka policeman is suddenly faced with the murder of Mendel Shpilman, a case that the powers in charge want closed and filed away. But for Meyer, there are too many loose connections and unanswered questions.

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