Sisters Brothers / Patrick DeWitt / 325 pages

This is one quirky Western! It's a quick read that gives you a feeling of what it was like to live in the West in the mid 1800's. Two brothers, Charlie & Eli, are notorious hired gunmen and this is the story of their last contract from the Commodore who hires them to take out a "thief" Hermann Kermit Warm. We meet prospectors insane from their solitary lives, shady ladies, villains, traders, hotel keepers, trappers and others. It makes you think what it must be like to live in a basically lawless state with no long term life expectancy. Told from the viewpoint of Eli, the "sensitive" brother with a temper problem, we get a good feeling for the brothers, their viewpoint on their job as hired killers, and their relationship. Recommend