The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt Wins This Year's Oregon Book Award for Fiction

The 2012 Oregon Book Awards were handed out yesterday and the western-themed crime novel — or maybe it's more of a crime-themed western novel — The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt was honored with the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. (See all the winners here.)

The storyline follows hired guns Eli and Charlie Sisters, who know Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die — they're going to make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's goldmining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living — and whom he does it for.

The Sisters Brothers was also shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize.