The Outward Room Author:Millen Brand This novel tells a powerful and thoroughly satisfying love story. But it is a most unusual novel for another reason, it tells the story of the regeneration of the mind. THe book opens in a mental hospital, to which Harriet Demuth has been committed several years before, after the shock resulting from the death of her brother in an auto accident... more ». She escapes into the outside world. She feels compulsion to break away, so she hangs onto a railway car and arrives in New York where she meets John , a machine shop worker who takes her home with him. She becomes more and more normal and falls in love with John. Together they face the supreme crisis of their lives.« less