Kate answers “What was the whole significance of Laura...”

Aradhita asked this question about American Gods (American Gods, #1):

What was the whole significance of Laura in the Book? Why does she come back from the dead? and what was the whole point of having her in the first place?

Kate This wouldn't dare to be a book about America without a Dead Girl. Laura coming back, in my eyes, was Gaiman's take on the worn-out trope of a woman s…moreThis wouldn't dare to be a book about America without a Dead Girl. Laura coming back, in my eyes, was Gaiman's take on the worn-out trope of a woman serving her man only in death, her absence the inciting incident that begins the real story.(less)

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