# Coyote Blue

*A Novel*

By Christopher Moore

Profile: https://hahafiction.com/books/coyote-blue-268b4035/

Sam Hunter has made a prosperous life selling insurance in Santa Barbara, far from the Crow reservation he fled as a teenager. Then he falls for Calliope Kincaid and receives another, much less welcome visitor: Coyote, a trickster god with plans for the past Sam has hidden.

## What makes it funny?

Sam can adjust his sales pitch to almost anyone. Coyote is a harder customer: a shapeshifter whose intervention costs Sam the security he's spent years building. The joke keeps returning to a professional persuader who can't manage his own supernatural helper.

### The comedy at work

Coyote treats helping Sam as permission to cause trouble. His disruptive interventions pull a smooth insurance salesman into a world where a god's idea of putting things right can be alarming to everyone else.

### Try this if…

Mythological fantasy readers who enjoy irreverent gods may find this appealing, particularly if they like a romantic adventure alongside the supernatural trouble. Sam's suppressed Crow identity gives the story a personal stake beyond Coyote's pranks.

### Good to know

The story includes sexual humor, violence and a child kidnapping. Publishers Weekly found a recurring strain of misogyny, while Kirkus enjoyed the pace and humor but found the plotting fragmented.

## What to expect

- Genre: Fantasy
- On the shelf: Mythic fantasy
- Kind of humor: Situational comedy
- The atmosphere: Irreverent
- Format: Novel

## A few distinguishing details

- A Crow insurance salesman confronted by the trickster Coyote

## Sources & further reading

- Review: [Coyote Blue — Kirkus Reviews](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/christopher-moore/coyote-blue)
- Publisher: [Coyote Blue — Simon & Schuster](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Coyote-Blue/Christopher-Moore/9781416558477)
- Review: [Coyote Blue — Publishers Weekly](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780671881887)