Fat Charlie Nancy

Fat Charlie is one of two sons of Anansi, the spider spirit god said to have created the universe. His brother, Spider, is the embodiment of Charlie's dark side and a spiritual Type A to Fat Charlie's Type B. Charlie is good-natured, easygoing, and somewhat naive. Since Charlie does not even meet his brother until he is an adult, the story of this novel could be viewed as his attempt to reconcile the different aspects of his own nature following the death of his father in Florida. The two brothers time travel together, arriving in unlikely times and places that confuse Charlie, as they seek to unravel a curse on the Anansi family by the Bird Woman. Charlie's naivetée blinds him to the fact his trickster brother has bedded down his fiancée, Rosie, who has told Charlie she will not sleep with him until...