num_pages: 225
description: In 1941, twenty-three-year-old Helen Bynum leaves home for the first time and sets out from rural New York to find her Aunt Lulu, an aging actress in New Orleans. There she finds a life of passion and adventure, possibilities and choices. Falling in with a bohemian group of intellectuals, she discovers romance and sex, friendship and risk, her world mirrored by the steamy mystery of the French Quarter.
language: English
title: The God of Nightmares
titlecomplete: The God of Nightmares
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 229
places: New Orleans, Louisiana
publisher: W.W. Norton & Company