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May 07, 2009

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Fat Charlie Nancy was living a quiet and unremarkable life in England, working in a hum-drum job and engaged to a sweet woman with an overbearing mother. And then his estranged father died.

This is the jumping off point for award winning author Neil Gaiman's novel, Anansi Boys. Fat Charlie Nancy travels to Florida for his father's funeral and discovers not only that his father was a god, but that Charlie also has a long-lost brother who has supernatural powers.

Anansi Boys is an engaging, interesting novel that entertwines the supernatural with the mundane seamlessly. Gaiman's sense of humor makes this an entertaining story of love, greed, murder, and fables.

Note - although Gaiman has written many children's books, Anansi Boys contains adult situations.

Posted by In Repair at May 7, 2009 09:21 PM

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