Besides being pals with Tori Amos, Neil Gaiman has worked with Douglas Adams on his companion to A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, created the enormously successful Sandman comic book series, and written for children (Coraline), the silver screen (Beowulf, in production by Robert Zemeckis), and fantasy-horror fans (American Gods). And he dwells among us, right here in St. Louis Park. Gaiman’s elegant, slightly highbrow writing is made addictive by his wicked sense of humor, and his ease in goosing the flat world we live in with characters who hail from entirely different universes. In Anansi Boys, a boring office worker saddled with a cruel name by his father discovers that dead old dad was actually an African trickster god, one with the power to do much more than embarrass his son.
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