Book.
Obviously, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman. I love Neil Gaiman. He's amazing. This is probably the best thing he ever wrote besides Fortunately, The Milk, which is about milk, time travel, and aliens. It's lovely.
The Amazon page, for you people with money.
The Calabazas library almost certainly has it in the adult paperback section, but if you want to get it at any of the local libraries:
https://sccl.bibliocommons.com/search?utf8=✓&t=smart&search_category=keyword&q=anansi+boys&commit=Search&searchOpt=catalogue (Wow. The random checkmark in the link. I had no idea that was possible.) (Santa Clara system)
http://discover.sjlibrary.org/iii/encore_sjpl/search/C__Sanansi%20boys__Orightresult__U;jsessionid=2BD9DBBA8CDFB22F5B766A5D3252C3C6?lang=eng (San Jose system)
About this book.
It's about a guy called Fat Charlie. It's about an trickster god called Anansi but better known in America as Mr. Nancy. It's about a long lost brother called Spider. It's about African mythology and voodoo. There is a flock murderous flamingos, a ferret (ohohoho but it's evil), and a lime.
There are also mermaids.
It's set in the same world as American Gods, which is equally good but legitimately has a reason for being in the adult section. American Gods involves Norse, African, Egyptian, Chinese, little-known Greek, Hindu, AND Russian mythology, a guy called Shadow, mistletoe, Burberry coats, a guy called Low Key Lyesmith [dang it, Gaiman, why did you have to do that to me], automobile gods, a great deal of sex, and coin tricks.
Right.
Now go off and read it.
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