Fan CastingThe Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
Story added by calebgoodman on December 29, 2023
The year is 2007 and nobody in the Federal District of Sitka knows what the future will be made of. The rain-soaked territory in the Alaska Panhandle became the last refuge of the Jews after the state of Israel was stillborn in 1948, and the United States is going to reclaim it in a few months. Meanwhile, hard-boiled and chronically depressed detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has a murder case on his hands. In the very rathole of a hotel where he has washed up, a man with a false identity has been executed, contract-style.
Teaming up with his long-time partner Berko Shemets, his cousin and half Tlingit Native American, Meyer...read more
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