Shadow thinks this is just a normal coin trick, and Mad Sweeney shows him how to do it too. Wednesday’s who calls himself a leprechaun, arrives at the bar and shows Shadow how to make a gold coin appear, seemingly out of thin air.

This time, Shadow accepts, drinking three glasses of mead with Wednesday to make the deal official – promising to be Wednesday’s assistant and to hold Wednesday’s vigil if Wednesday ever dies. Wednesday is at the bar, and he offers Shadow the job again. Shadow rents a car and starts to drive home, stopping at a bar for dinner. Meanwhile, the narrator describes a goddess in Los Angeles named Bilquis practicing her particular brand of sexual magic, swallowing a client whole when he agrees to worship her with his body. Shadow refuses, then gets off the plane early to avoid talking to Mr. On the plane, Shadow falls asleep and has a strange dream about a man with a buffalo head who tells him to believe “everything.” When he wakes, he meets a strange man who calls himself Mr. He is released early and catches a plane back to his home in Eagle Point, Indiana so that he can attend the memorial.

Two days before he is supposed to be allowed to go back to his beloved wife Laura, Shadow finds out that his wife has died in a car accident. Shadow has spent his time practicing coin tricks and reading a copy of Herodotus’s Histories borrowed from his cellmate Low Key Lyesmith. The novel starts as a man named Shadow Moon is getting ready for his release from prison, after three years inside.

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