Coyote Blue

A novel by Christopher Moore, published in 1994.

Samson Hunts Alone, aka Sam Hunter, runs away from home as a teenager when he's tied to the death of a local police officer. Twenty years later, he's a yuppie insurance salesman living peacefully in Los Angeles. His life is turned upside down when he unwittingly gets involved with the trickster god Coyote.

Tropes used in Coyote Blue include:

• All Bikers Are Hells Angels
• Braids, Beads, and Buckskins: Both averted and played straight.
• Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Gods will die out unless people believe in them and tell stories about them. Ultimately the fate of Anubis.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Coyote.
• Cool Shades: Minty Fresh wears a pair to hide his Eyes of Gold.
• Comically Missing the Point:

"He was funny. He tried to teach me how to walk on water. I said I could do that just fine in the winter."

—Coyote, in reference to Jesus.

• Crossover Cosmology: Anubis is Coyote's older brother and he's met Jesus.
• Eyes of Gold: Coyote, Anubis and their 'children' (Sam and Minty Fresh, respectively) all have golden eyes to denote their supernaturality.
• Lemony Narrator
• No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus: Coyote has met Jesus once and is amused that Jesus makes such a big deal about coming back from the dead one time. It Makes Sense in Context, as Coyote's brother is Anubis, a god who has brought the dead back to life on multiple occasions.
  • It's even funnier without the context from the book. Simply going by existing mythology, Coyote has died and come back to life dozens of times. Of course he'd be amused by a religion based on a guy who only did it once, and took a whole three days to do it even then.
• Physical God: Coyote.
• Trickster Archetype: Coyote.
• Unfazed Everyman: Sam Hunter.
• Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Minty Fresh. Even Sam, who is born as "Samson Hunts Alone".