Description: Allen explores the uncharted territory between passion and addiction, grief and madness, and this world and the next, as she struggles on the road to recovery after her lover, despondent over his drug addiction, kills himself.
Review Quotes: "A love story, a memoir, a haunting tale of grief and healing. This book is all that and more." --Chicago Tribune
"Wrenching in its spare, humble prose....It will stay with you." --Esquire "Intelligent, humorous, unsentimental... [The Rooms of Heaven] convince[s] us that the mystery of love is indeed far greater and more profound than the mystery of death." --Elle