The Sisters Brothers: Why Didn’t This Award-Winning Western Work for Me?
It’s June, so it’s June on the Range! For this western reading event, I read The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt, a Booker Prize-nominated, award-winning literary western about two hitmen travelling through Oregon and California during the Gold Rush. The premise sounded like something I might love: a violent, darkly funny western adventure with assassins, gold, greed, and brotherly tension. But… it didn’t really work for me. In this review, I talk about why The Sisters Brothers became such an award-friendly novel, why I can understand the praise, and why I personally found it frustrating. Was it too slow? Too fragmented? Too detached from suspense? Or was I simply expecting the wrong kind of western? June on the range is created by @michaelk.vaughan8617 co-hosts @anotherbibliophilereads @LiterateTexan @GhostReadersintheSky @saintdonoghue @bookssongsandothermagic @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn @royreadsanything @M-J @GenreBooks23 @anotherbibliophilereads #BookTube #JuneOnTheRange #TheSistersBrothers #PatrickDeWitt #WesternBooks #BookReview #LiteraryWestern #AntiWestern
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