It incorporates aspects of Catholicism and the Fon religion from Africa, a spiritual bridge between beliefs that arose when Africans were forced to become slaves in America and found different religious rites thrust upon them. Though religion was suppressed, culture and spiritual tradition surpassed and evolved into the magic of hoodoo. Flowers says he sees each of his books as a spell, trying to work a spell on the future, a spell on reality. Flowers read from his novel, Another Good Loving Blues . The main character of the book, Lucas Bodeen, is a blues man.
Flowers is a blues singer as well.
How Flowers became interested in the blues is a bit astonishing. Flowers, who was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, served in the Vietnam War. Whenever people found out he was from Memphis, they always asked him about the blues. Flowers did not know about the blues because, as he says, the popularity of the blues took a hiatus during his youth. When Flowers moved to New York to pursue his career as a novelist, he began working with performance poets.