DECEMBER BOOK
Our book for December is The Yiddish Policemen's Union (link) by American author Michael Chabon. This complex alternate history novel won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. The second Tuesday of the month lands on December 10th this time around. The status remains quo for our location, Zawa Restaurant at Commercial & Venables (Zawa), as well as our start time (7pm). As usual, all are welcome to join in for some pre-holiday book banter accompanied by feasting and libations.
For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end.
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