Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Bram Stoker Award, New York Times bestseller American Gods is a heady brew of "mystery, satire, sex, horror, [and] poetic prose"
(Washington Post Book World)

Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a mysterious stranger offers him a job. But Mr. Wednesday, who knows more about Shadow than is possible, warns that a storm is coming -- a battle for the very soul of America . . . and they are in its direct path.

One of the most talked-about books of the new millennium, American Gods is a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an American landscape at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece.