Mortification Scale: 1 Tomato Face
- 1 TF for being a sci-fi trade paperback - otherwise, this book is awesome!
- Introduced me to West African folkloric god Anansi, the trickster, spider god.
- One of the first books I've ever read where the author did not provide any information as to the protagonist's race until over half-way through the book. Nice to read a story where race was not a factor in identifying with the character
- Laugh out loud funny. I snorted in public.
- An excellent, though-provoking book
Fat-Charlie discovers that his father was a god. Literally. He learns this after his father's funeral, from an old lady who has been a friend of the family for Fat-Charlie's whole life. Not just any god, Fat-Charlie's dad was Anansi, the spider god of West African and Carribean folklore. Unfortunately, all of the godhood skipped Fat-Charlie and descended on his hitherto unknown brother, Spider. When Fat-Charlie and Spider meet, all hell breaks out in Fat-Charlie's life.
There is magic and family dynamics, Caribbean colloquialisms and international crime. This is an EXCELLENT book by the creator of the Sandman comics and the writer of Stardust. I would highly recommend it to anyone and would list it on my Books to Brag About blog except for some people's unreasonable prejudice against anything bought in the Science Fiction aisle of a bookstore.
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