A couple of years ago, The Folio Society, a publisher of what it describes as “carefully crafted” books, released its own, beautiful edition of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel American Gods, just before Starz released its own adaptation. Now, with the show’s second season coming this spring, the publisher has released a new edition of the novel’s companion, Anansi Boys.
The book isn’t really a sequel to American Gods — Gaiman has said that he’s planning to write a proper followup, but not for a while. The story follows a man named Charles “Fat Charlie” Nancy, who learns that his father (Mr. Nancy, a character that appears in both American Gods and Anansi Boys), who died in Florida, was the incarnation of the West African spider god Anansi....
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