And along came a spider...

Sat, 02/27/2010 - 9:36am by RiponGood

"Fat Charlie" Nancy has a problem. He lives in London and has a job he doesn't much like. Charlie tries to contact his father in Florida and finds out he just passed away. So, Charlie goes to Florida for the funeral. While there, Charlie learns two disturbing things. First, his father was actually the human incarnation of Anansi the African trickster spider god. Second, he has a brother, named Spider, who shares some of his father's powers. From here on in, Charlie's life takes a bad turn, with Spider stealing his fiance, getting him fired, and being arrested for a white-collar crime. What will "Fat Charlie" do? Use his own magical powers of course. Follow the exploits of "Fat Charlie" in Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys.