The five people you meet in heaven

Author: Mitch Albom
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: A brand-new masterpiece from Mitch Albom, the author of "Tuesdays with Morrie," polished over six years! Bestselling over four million copies worldwide. It has consecutively won the top spot on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon Online Store for over forty weeks. Some stories are destined to begin with their endings—after all, every ending is also a new beginning. "Tuesdays with Morrie" concluded with Morrie's sudden passing. Six years later, in Mitch Albom's latest work, non-fiction is replaced by fiction, death transforms from an ending into a beginning, and the protagonist remains an elderly man—not a wise professor, but a retired veteran who, until the very end, harbors confusion about his own life. He's named Eddie. On his eighty-third birthday, he dies at an amusement park while saving a girl caught in a sudden accident. When he wakes up, Eddie finds himself in heaven, only to discover: it's not a pastoral Eden, but a tapestry of overlapping fragments of life on Earth. Five people—some remembered, some overlooked, some forgotten—take turns appearing, guiding him to rediscover lost moments and unravel the mysteries of life. In the unseen world, as if there's a massive chain spanning the heavens and earth, Eddie is just one link. This book makes every reader a link in the chain, sharing the same secret: In heaven, there will be five people waiting for you to grow up, fall in love, age, and die, waiting to answer your final questions. Because, every one of us affects another, and at the core, all the diverse stories in the world are ultimately the same.