Books: Family Ties You just can't escape. BY MOLLY TEMPLETON ANANSI BOYS, fiction by Neil Gaiman. William Morrow, 2005. Hardcover, $26.95. It was a bad week for books. A week of literary Goldilocksing: This one trying too hard, that one too boring, another one clunky as all get out. Until along came Neil Gaiman — like the slipper that fits, the porridge that doesn't burn the tongue, and the bed with no pea under the mattress — with Anansi Boys, a sequel of sorts to his bestselling American Gods and a funny, sharp, heartfelt and wonderful tale about how you just can't escape your family (and you probably shouldn't try). Even if you suddenly find out that your family is not what you thought it was. Not at all what you thought it was. [read more]
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