HENRI EDSON XIMENEZ is a deeply psychological novel. It follows a Baltimore punk rocker on the road in the MTV Nineties looking for inspiration and an answer to his missing faith. By descecrating a tomb in New Orleans he generates a hex and another personality takes over his mind, creating a long sequence of timeslips and mysterious clues leading to a startling conclusion. Paul Flum’s staccato style and game-playing action marks HENRI EDSON XIMENEZ as an exciting new diection for the American novel