![]() ![]() His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. Now, after sixty years of federal neglect, the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown.īut homicide detective Meyer Landsman has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. Proud, grateful and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful and complex frontier city that moves to the Yiddish beat. The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning ‘The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay’įor sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a ‘temporary’ safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. ![]()
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