THE DEEP LIMITLESS AIR A MEMOIR IN PIECES IBD

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Mary Allen is the author of The Rooms of Heaven, published by Alfred A. Knopf and Vintage Books. She received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 2002. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Tiferet, Real Simple, Library Journal, CNN On-line, The Chaos, Shenandoah, Spoon River Poetry Review, and in the anthology If I DonâÇÖt Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings. She has an MFA from the Iowa WritersâÇÖ Workshop and has taught at the University of Iowa.áShe lives in Iowa City and is a full-time writing coach.áENDORSEMENTSá'Mary AllenâÇÖs effortlessly original voice addresses the reader with startling simplicity and moral clarity, whether she is introducing us to the tender friendship between a young woman and a celebrated octogenarian, or allowing us to see through her eyes the beautiful solemnity of monks at their devotions, or tracing her own strange citizenship in the liminal realm of a disrupted childhood and the years that follow. Simply put, read this book.áAllenâÇÖs beguiling and brilliant writing will leave you exhilarated.'-Jo Ann Beard, author of Festival Daysá'A snarl of honeybees in a parcel at the post office evokes a motherâÇÖs long-ago rage, a medical insurance crisis arises when a sister gives birth, past loves, an old man who was kind, Boston, Iowa City, Hawaii, speculations of the afterlife.The Deep Limitless Air tells a life of successive revelation, evolving wisdom.áMary AllenâÇÖs prose has the freshness of the most optimistic morning.áI adore this book.'-Honor Moore, author of Our Revolution, A Mother and Daughter at Midcenturyá'Among the reasons I love The Deep Limitless Air is that its spirituality is so light-handed and matter-of-fact and barely distinguishable from the apprehension and appreciation of ordinary life, life both lived and recalled. Mary Allen writes about growing up with a rejecting mother, of lovers, partners, friends, and a procession of animals who summon her tender and respectful attention, of learning to bear the long silence of meditation and the joyful shout of the world. A beautiful, funny, warm, and heartbreaking book.'-Peter Trachtenberg, author of Another Insane Devotion, On the Love of Cats and PersonsáMary Allen is the author of The Rooms of Heaven, a literary memoir published by Alfred A. Knopf and Vintage Books.