I picked this up from a box sale at Book Closeouts. It's the second Christopher Moore book.

From Chapters:
From Christopher Moore, author of Fluke, comes a quirky, irreverent novel of love, myth, metaphysics, outlaw biking, angst, and outrageous redemption.

As a boy growing up in Montana, he was Samson Hunts Alone -- until a deadly misunderstanding with the law forced him to flee the Crow reservation at age fifteen. Today he is Samuel Hunter, a successful Santa Barbara insurance salesman with a Mercedes, a condo, and a hollow, invented life. Then one day, shortly after his thirty-fifth birthday, destiny offers him the dangerous gift of love -- in the exquisite form of Calliope Kincaid -- and a curse in the unheralded appearance of an ancient Indian god by the name of Coyote. Coyote, the trickster, has arrived to transform tranquillity into chaos, to reawaken the mystical storyteller within Sam ... and to seriously screw up his existence in the process.

Sam Hunter (formally known as Samson Hunts Alone) has abandoned his Crow Indian roots after a run in with the law. He lives as a "white person" until his Crow roots catch up with him. Coyote, Sam's Indian God, appears one day and turns Sams life upside down. Coyote causes Sam to nearly lose his job and home, takes advantage of Sam's secretary, and helps Sam pursue a beautiful girl called Calliope. All of this brings Sam back to his roots. He ends up at home with his uncles trying to find a way to get Coyote back from where he came, and save Calliope.
In comparison to the last Christopher Moore book I read (Practical Demonkeeping), this book wasn't as good. I was expecting multiple story lines that all eventually found their way together in unexpected ways. This one had only two main story lines (Sam's and Pookey's). They were interesting, but definitely weird. The humour wasn't enough to get me through the weirdness of the book and although I finished it, it definitely isn't a top rated book for me.

RELEASE NOTES:

Sent to a bookmoocher in Austria. Enjoy!!

A huge thank you HoserLauren for letting me mooch this from you!

I really like this author and hope to get around to reading this soon!

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Releasing at the English Bookcrossing Meet-up!

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From the English MeetUp
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Edit: Sept 12
Read two other Moores before ("Fluke" and "Lust Lizard of Melancholy Grove") and found both better. While I did enjoy the flashbacks into the childhood of Samuel, I found the spiritual parts rather boring. Am not much interested in spiritual stuff at all. I found the other novels had more of a story to tell, more of an actual plot, than this one.

Left in the hotel lobby on the book shelf.
Have fun reading!