The 2012 Tournament of Books was presented by Field Notes, and that year’s Rooster went to The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt, who had this to say about the win:

I was moving house with a heavy heart and a headache from the going-away party when I got word that The Sisters Brothers had taken the prize, which made me feel quite a lot better. Thank you very much for this. I appreciate the work that went into the Tournament, and the dialogue surrounding it. I bow to the judges and the authors, too. Please don’t send me a rooster in the mail. But really, and again, thank you.