FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN (A FORMAT)
Fans of Tuesdays with Morrie will find much to love here. Mitch Albom returns with another thought-provoking story about mortality and meaning, and it's the kind of book that quietly gets under your skin. The central character is Eddie, an ageing maintenance man at an amusement park, whose life ends in a split second when he attempts to push a young girl clear of a plummeting cart. What follows is something altogether unexpected. In the afterlife, Eddie encounters five individuals, each of whom touched his life in ways he never fully understood while he was alive. One by one, they walk him through what his time on earth actually amounted to, and the answers are more complicated than he could have imagined. Woven throughout are richly drawn flashbacks covering his difficult early years, wartime service in the Philippines, and a tender, lasting love for his wife Marguerite. Albom handles each strand with real emotional intelligence. The writing is lyrical without ever feeling overwrought, and the story moves at a pace that keeps you turning pages. It asks genuinely interesting questions about purpose and connection, the idea that ordinary lives ripple outwards in ways we rarely see. A quietly affecting read.
- Author: Mitch Albom
- Publisher: Sphere
- Genre: Classic Literature
- ISBN: 978-0751536140
- Pages: 240 pages