Anansi Boys Summary
Neil Gaiman

Anansi Boys Summary

In African and West Indian indigenous folklore, Anansi is the spider god who created the universe. From that core myth, the author spins a fictional web of imagination in which the spider god's two sons, Fat Charlie and Spider, seek and find each other in different corners of the world. Unsurprisingly, the two sons have adopted Nancy, a variation on the name of Anansi, as their surname. They are joined in...

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