The Rooms of Heaven (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679776567)

A riveting memoir that explores the uncharted territory between passion and addiction, grief and madness, this world and the next.

"A love story, a memoir, a haunting tale of grief and healing" --Chicago Tribune

When Mary Allen falls in love with Jim Beaman, she doesn't know he has a drug problem, but she does sense demons and angels around him, like "a disturbance in the air, a sound just beyond the register of human hearing." And when Jim--discouraged and depressed, struggling with his addiction--kills himself a year into their relationship, Allen is unable to let him go. In her desperate attempts to recover from the loss, she uses a Ouija board and automatic writing to pull back from reality into the dark recesses of her mind, where she believes she can find him. The result is a mesmerizing trip across the boundaries between this world and the afterlife, a journey that leads her to the brink of insanity and ultimately back to herself.

Author: Mary Allen
ISBN-10: 0679776567
ISBN-13: 9780679776567
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 04/11/2000
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.74d
Award: Society of Midland Authors Award - Honorable Mention