He just lost his wife and has come out of prison. He is witnessing the modern mythology and also contributing to it. Shadow, our main character is somehow in the middle of everything. Both of them are in a struggle to show their dominance. American territory can only have one kind of gods - old or new. The book is not only heavily based on mythology but also laced with horror and thrilling paranormal elements. The rivalry between old gods whom no one believes in anymore and new gods with a considerable following grows steep when the last wishes to get rid of all the old gods once and for all. They are living in the modern era, trying to keep up with the world, survive in the society and the new-gods of this materialistic world are their biggest enemy. Who could have thought my hiatus from Young Adult Contemporary genre and search for something intriguing would lead me to Modern mythology? American Gods is a book about old gods that are not American but yet at the core of American beliefs.
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