{"product_id":"9780679776567","title":"The Rooms of Heaven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014008750320,"sku":"9780679776567","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679776567_p0.jpg?v=1763609068","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679776567","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}