{"product_id":"the-rooms-of-heaven-9780679776567","title":"The Rooms of Heaven","description":"\"A love story, a memoir, a haunting tale of grief and healing. This book is all that and more.\" --\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the tradition of Susanna Kaysen's \u003cb\u003eGirl, Interrupted\u003c\/b\u003e and Caroline Knapp's \u003cb\u003eDrinking: A Love Story\u003c\/b\u003e, Mary Allen tells a riveting love story that explores the uncharted territory between passion and addiction, grief and madness, this world and the next. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/11\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679776567\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Society of Midland Authors Award - Honorable Mention","brand":"Mary Allen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39637860614325,"sku":"9780679776567","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6d0ee884-9d95-48ae-9f09-2f48ba5297ab.jpg?v=1617678983","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-rooms-of-heaven-9780679776567","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}