The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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Read on Hacker News…lting firm working w/ their website; at the time -- and perhaps still? -- they worked in gender-segregated areas when on site. More randomness for the hell of it: I read the Yiddish Policemen's Union the other week and cannot recommend it highly enough. (It's a noir detective alt-history set in a Jewish analogue of Hong Kong in Alaska, where the local organized crime are Hasidic, the slang name for them is "black hats.") (It also manages to be a page-turner without any of that guilty feeling of "I just read 300 pages without thinking a single original thought" that so many page-turners leave you with.)
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