The Sisters Brothers

This novel came highly recommended and deWitt certainly delivered a great tale. The picaresque doesn't get enough airtime, in my opinion, and I thought Eli's journey was poignant riff on the hit-man-on-his-last-job trope. I found the structure of the novel, with intermissions that interrupted the men's travels, to be a bit frustrating–I'm not sure the intermissions fit even as intermissions into the flow of the book. Although I enjoyed reading it, I didn't have a problem setting it aside to pick up other things. This may have something to do with my current lack of enthusiasm for male-centered fiction. I don't read romance novels for women, but on the other hand I just cannot wrap my head around the boys-doing-bad-things-with-boys genre of literature. (portrait of the artist-esque stuff makes me even more uppity). Eli and his brother held no charm or interest for me, and I grew quickly tired of them.