The Sisters Brothers
Book | Patrick deWitt
The Sisters Brothers is a pitch-perfect page-turner.
In The Sisters Brothers, author Patrick deWitt cleverly refreshes the classic western novel by injecting it with absurdity, offbeat humor, and elements of the picaresque. But this novel is more than just tricks. The plot is straightforward enough: brothers and assassins, Eli and Charlie Sisters, are instructed by a man named the Commodore to travel from Oregon to San Francisco to kill one Hermann Kermit Warm. But Eli's neurotic, introspective voice, which narrates the book, not only undercuts what might otherwise be just a rugged revenge story, it also transforms the short episodic chapters into plot points with surprising emotional resonance. As the story progresses, Eli and Charlie find themselves in increasingly odd circumstances where they clash with a cast of bizarre characters, all of whom, in one way or another, challenge the brothers' relationship with each other while exposing them to their worst enemies—themselves. A pitch-perfect page-turner, The Sisters Brothers is at once highly entertaining and strangely affecting.
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