[How it Works](https://scribetribe.binderybooks.com/how-it-works/) [Bookshop](https://scribetribe.binderybooks.com/books/bindery/) [Publishing](https://scribetribe.binderybooks.com/publishing/) [Team](https://scribetribe.binderybooks.com/team/) [Contact](https://scribetribe.binderybooks.com/contact/) Log in or Sign up American Gods: A Novel Neil Gaiman Save to Your Books [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/book/9780063081918) [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063081911) From #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, a contemporary masterpiece combining mythology, adventure, and illusion—one of ten classic Gaiman works repackaged with elegant original watercolor art by acclaimed artist Henry Sene Yee. Released from prison, Shadow finds his world turned upside down. His wife has been killed; a stranger offers him a job and Shadow, with nothing to lose, accepts. But a storm is coming. Beneath the placid surface of everyday life, a war is being fought—and the prize is the very soul of America. An inspired combination of mythology, adventure, and illusion, _American Gods_ is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. It is, quite simply, a contemporary masterpiece. > “Piercingly observed, jaggedly poetic, ruthlessly cutting a path through graveyards of dead stars and dead money and dead feelings, this novel is the map back to dawn.” — Steve Erickson > “American Gods manages to reinvent, and reassert, the enduring importance of fantastic literature itself in this late age of the world. 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Today's practice is inspired by AMERICAN GODS by Neil Gaiman. We'll move through sun and moon salutations inspired by Mad Sweeney, Shadow, and the Zorya sisters, then dive into the land of the dead as Laura Moon. Odin will take us on a one-eyed adventure through warrior poses, and Mr. Nancy will make us wish we had six more legs. 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