"Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than 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..."
"As unsettling as it is exhilarating, American Gods is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. Magnificently told, this work of literary magic will haunt the reader far beyond the final page."
A very quirky and very fascinating read. If you are not into the slightly weird, this is probably not for you, but I had a great time. The best part for me was to always figure out if and which god the various characters were that Shadow kept stumbling into on his strange road trip across the states...
