Read: The Sisters Brothers

I finished up Patrick DeWitt's novel The Sisters Brothers while waiting for my family's arrival on island.  The book follows the murderous exploits of Eli and Charlie Sisters as they travel from Oregon City to San Francisco in the 1850s to hunt down their mark.

Some of my favorite bits include:

• "My very center was beginning to expand, as it always did before violence, a toppled pot of black ink covering the frame of my mind, its contents ceaseless, unaccountably limitless."
• "I could hear Charlie in the next room, washing himself in the bathtub.  He was saying nothing and would say nothing, I knew, but the sound the water made was like a voice, the way it hurried and splashed, chattering, then falling quiet but for the rare drip, as if in humble contemplation.  It seemed to me I could gauge from these sounds the sorrow or gladness of their creator..."