Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Like most of Gaiman's work, this is a little spooky, a little funny and sometimes just weird. But for all the quirkiness, it is the incredible writing that keeps you most amazed. Most of us are familiar with the African trickster tales of Anansi the spider. Imagine then that he is alive in the world as a drunken musician with a son who early in his life really splits to become 2 people - one the the magical and marginally moral Spider and the other an English accountant named Charlie. Charlie is on the verge of marrying the wrong woman when his father "dies" (as in some confusing transformation that involves many other funky magical characters in Florida) and he meets Spider for the first time. Spider's ability to be perceived as Charlie causes the kind of disruption that would make Anansi proud particularly when Charlie's crooked boss attempts to steal money from the company. Is there a moral to this trickster tale? Who cares?