"All ending are beginnings. We just don't know it at the
time..."
#1 New York Times bestseller!!
From the author of the number one New York Times bestseller
Tuesdays with Morrie comes this long-awaited follow-up, an
enchanting, beautifully crafted novel that explores a mystery only
heaven can unfold.
Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless
life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. As the park has
changed over the years -- from the Loop-the-Loop to the Pipeline
Plunge -- so, too, has Eddie changed, from optimistic youth to
embittered old age. His days are a dull routine of work,
loneliness, and regret.
Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying
to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath,
he feels two small hands in his -- and then nothing. He awakens in
the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of
Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by
five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones
or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path
forever.
One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections
of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning
conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown
last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating
failure? The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources,
is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself.
In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an
astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever
thought about the afterlife -- and the meaning of our lives here on
earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that
readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie,
will treasure.
personally, i enjoyed this book, because you can really relate the
experiences and lessons to your life
