The Rooms of Heaven

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 Jimdiscouraged and depressed struggling with his addictionkills 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.