Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman

Brilliant. Another book from Neil Gaiman that I love. Love, love, love. I love how he intertwines a bizarre, fantasy world with our normal, modern world. It creates fascinating reading. In this book, a man named Charlie hears that his father has died. He flies from his home in London to Florida to attend the funeral, and from there everything goes weird. He finds out that his father was actually a god (a spider) (and might not really be dead, but he doesn't play a direct role in the novel, so he may as well be dead for our purposes as readers) and that he has a brother (sort of) who has his father's god-like abilities, which Charlie does not have. Sort of. Charlie invites his brother into his life, and Spider (his brother) makes a mess of Charlie's life and then Charlie has to figure out how to get rid of his brother. And then he has to figure out how to save his brother when Raven takes him. Great story. Great worlds.