Near the end of this novel, one of its major characters tears his pant leg while undertaking his ritual climb up a drainpipe to have sex with his lover.
Near the end of this novel, one of its major characters tears his pant leg while undertaking his ritual climb up a drainpipe to have sex with his lover. In his first flight after the death of his pilot sister, the protagonist of this novel cakes the plane with his vomit. Nearly every character in this novel delights in eating Filipino-style Chinese donuts at the Pearl of Manila. The protagonist of this novel investigates a conspiracy to blow up the Dome of the Rock, soon after being rescued from prison by Willie Dick, his old vulgar (*) Tlingit buddy. In this novel, Hertz Shemetz, the father of Berko, is revealed to have left a cardboard chessboard next to the body of his victim, a man calling himself Emmanuel Lasker. For 10 points, name this alternative historical novel set in the predominantly-Jewish town of Sitka, Alaska, starring detective Meyer Landsman and written by Michael Chabon.
Near the end of this novel, one of its major characters tears his pant leg while undertaking his ritual climb up a drainpipe to have sex with his lover.
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