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The Sisters Brothers

by Patrick deWitt

Two hired killers ride west, but one of them is starting to question the job.

Genre and trope pairingsAdventureQuest
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About The Sisters Brothers

In 1851, Eli and Charlie Sisters are sent from Oregon to California to kill prospector Hermann Kermit Warm. Their violent, strange, and darkly funny journey becomes an offbeat Western about brotherhood, greed, doubt, and the frontier’s brutal absurdity.

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Darkness
Dark
Pacing
Fast
Content warnings
  • animal cruelty
  • animal death
  • death
  • gun violence
  • violence
  • murder
  • gore
  • blood
  • injury detail
  • alcoholism
  • drug use
  • sexual content
  • amputation

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