When Fat Charlies dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie Fat Charlie. Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy cant shake that name, one of the many embarrassing gifts his father bestowedbefore he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlies life. Because Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the stranger who appears on Charlies doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew.And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.

Neil Gaiman journeys deep into myth to brings us a tale playful, profound, and rife with mayhem and mischiefan audacious and inspired story of family, luck, deceit, and an unusual legacy that illuminates the divine in our humanity. Not to mention a lime.