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Anansi Boys

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Anansi Boys
AuthorNeil Gaiman
Published2005
Pages384
RecommendedOnce
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Why it’s on the listNeil Gaiman’s comedy about inheritance: Mr. Nancy — an incarnation of the West African trickster god Anansi — dies, and the embarrassed son who spent his life avoiding him discovers he has a brother. Not a sequel to American Gods, though Mr. Nancy is in both.

Anansi Boys

Where I heard about it

  • a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in the Fantasy section, the fourth of four titles under the Neil Gaiman entry. Their note grants that his books “tend to be pretty similar to one another” while keeping four of them; this is the funniest of the four.

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