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Supporting Characters are Important

I’m about half-way through American Gods, and I’m still loving it. Neil Gaiman is such an excellent writer. Anyhow, in the part I was reading last night, Shadow, the novel’s protagonist winds up giving a ride to a hitchhiking girl named Sam. This character, Sam, is only in the book for 5-10 [...]