IS NOTHING SACRED?\nDays before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr. Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.\nTogether they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.\nScary, gripping and deeply unsettling, AMERICAN GODS takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who -it finds there...\n'This is a fantastic novel...runs as precisely as clockwork, but reads as smoothly as silk or warm chocolate' INDEPENDENT\n'Here we have poignancy, terror, nobility, magic, sacrifice, wisdom, mystery, heartbreak, and a hard-earned sense of resolution - a real emotional richness and grandeur that emerge from masterful storytelling' Peter Straub\n'AMERICAN GODS is some kind of miracle. Caiman has managed to tell the tallest of tales in the most heart-rending and believable fashion, despite the story's truly mythic scale. It is an important, essential book' Jonathan Carroll\n'This book will astonish you on every page, and at the same time have you believing every word. You'll stay up late to finish and then be sorry when it's done' Tim Powers\n'Dark, fun and nourishing to the soul' Michael Chabon\nThis is the author's preferred text. Includes exclusive extra Material: Introduction to This Text An Interview with Neil Gaiman Reading-group Discussion Questions