The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a quirky western, full of gunfights and grizzlies and gold. But also an environmental cautionary tale. Sure, toothpaste and painkillers make life more pleasant, but turn those chemicals into a shortcut for finding gold and greed has people killing each other for the formula, regardless of the fact the chemicals are so caustic they can even kill the people using them. Its an outlandish story told in Eli's factual plodding point of view, making all that happens seem inevitable.
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There is a feeling here, which if it gets you, will envenom your very center. It is a madness of possibilities.
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