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'''''Anansi Boys''''' is a 2005 novel by [[Neil Gaiman]], set in [[The Verse|the same fictional universe]] as his earlier ''[[American Gods]]'', although not a direct sequel to that story
Within a couple of days of Spider turning up, Fat Charlie has lost his job and fiancée, and is also wanted by the police. Willing to do anything to make his brother go away again, he finds a way to contact the other gods and makes a deal. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|And then things start to
[[Lenny Henry]] has voiced Fat Charlie for both the audiobook and a BBC Radio adaptation. A film version allegedly fell through because [[Executive Meddling|the studio]] wanted [[Race Lift|a predominantly white cast]], despite almost every character in the book being black. However, he{{who}} has since resumed work on it, and a first draft of a script has been completed.▼
▲[[Lenny Henry]] has voiced Fat Charlie for both the audiobook and a BBC Radio adaptation. A film version allegedly fell through because [[Executive Meddling|the studio]] wanted [[Race Lift|a predominantly white cast]], despite almost every character in the book being black. However, he has since resumed work on it, and a first draft of a script has been completed.
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* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]: Fat Charlie's father even ''dies'' in an embarrassing way.
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* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: After the incident with his cab driver, Fat Charlie finds himself forced to take his lime everywhere, because word got around about the man with the lime, and everyone is demanding to see it.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Compared to ''[[American Gods]]'', this is almost pure comedy. It's as good, though.
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* [[Little Bit Beastly]]
** The gods of the animal pantheon all have characteristics of the animals they're based on, such as tails, whiskers -- and extra nipples.
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* [[Smug Snake]]: Grahame Coats.
* [[Split At Birth]]: Not quite at birth, but at a young enough age that Fat Charlie didn't know he had a brother. {{spoiler|Because technically, Spider isn't Fat Charlie's brother; he's an aspect of Fat Charlie's own personality who got split off and sent away by an angry old woman who knew some magic.}}
▲* [[Starfish Character]]: They even explicitly refer to it by the old trope name.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Daisy was named Daisy because at the time of her birth, her parents owned a tandem (a bicycle built for two).
* [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]]: Grahame Coats has one of these about Maeve Livingston and her hypothetical identical naked twin sister, Maeve II.
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