Well, seeing that today certainly is my day - why don't you call me Wednesday?" "Who are you?" Shadow asks, and the older man replies, "Let's see. Each meeting seems to be the result of extravagantly improbable chance, and the gentleman, who offers Shadow a job as his bodyguard, just won't take no for an answer. To make matters worse, he has a series of unsettling encounters with a persistent older gentleman in a pale suit. Fresh from doing three years in prison for a stupid crime, he learns that his beloved wife, Laura, is dead, killed in a car accident with his best friend, the guy who'd promised him a job when he got out. As with most noir heroes, we meet Shadow, the protagonist of Neil Gaiman's hard-boiled fantasia, "American Gods," after he's lost everything.
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