![]() ![]() ![]() The novel won both the big science fiction awards: the Nebula and the Hugo. But if you need more than magic and wonder in your life, as if there is anything else, silly grown-ups, then there is plenty of meaty story in American Gods for you. My daughter, now seven, still asks me when I will teach her how to do magic, and if nothing else it is worth reading just for that. I read American Gods, the story of Shadow and scheming Wednesday, and it made me want to learn coin tricks. It’s only a coin behind your ear, and there it is, as if by magic, the light reflecting hazily from its dull silver sides. Wait, what’s that? There? Don’t be self-conscious. Do you see it? There, there, where? A little piece of wonder, the coin has gone. I rub the coin between the thumb and fingers of my other hand. Do you see it between my thumb and forefinger, cold and silver? Just an ordinary coin a small promise of value a piece of faith in my hand. ![]()
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