America is not a country for gods, and this is true of the new gods as well as the old. Which is pretty much the theme for Gaiman's book. Worship in our society passes from the railroads, the railroad tycoons to celebrities who come and go with the night. I suppose it would take a Brit to notice. My main gripe would be that the protagonist, Shadow, is almost superfluous to the resolution. He is acted ON more than he takes action, and his main contribution was to talk all the gods out of fighting. Otherwise good, to a point.