"AMERICAN GODS IS SOME KIND OF MIRACLE. Gaiman has managed to tell the tallest of tales in the most heartrending and believable fashion, despite the story’s truly mythic scale. It is an important, essential book."

--Jonathan Carroll

Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she’s been killed in a terrible accident.

Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more about Shadow than is possible.

He warns Shadow that a far bigger storm is coming. And from that moment on, nothing will ever be the same...