Start the New Year with an award winning fantasy, Anansi Boys by Niel Gamman. Winner of numerous fantasy and young adult awards including:
2006 Alex Award
2006 Locus Awards for Fantasy
2006 Mythopoeic Award: Adult Literature
2006 YALSA Best books for Young Adults
Review
Fat Charlie's life is about to be spiced up-his estranged father dies in a karaoke bar, and the handsome brother he never knew he had shows up on his doorstep with a gleam in his eye. Next thing he knows, Fat Charlie is being investigated by the police, his fiancé’s falling in love with the wrong brother, and he finds out that his father was the god Anansi, Trickster and Spider, and that the beast gods of folklore are plotting their own revenge upon his family bloodline. A fun book with a little of everything-horror, mystery, magic, comedy, song, romance, ghosts, scary birds, ancient grudges, and trademark British wit-it shares ideas and characters with American Gods but conveys a more personal look at the dysfunctions unique to a family of deities (now this would be one reality show definitely to watch!). Another lovely story as only Gaiman can tell it; necessary and recommended. -Ann Kim, Library Journal Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
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