5 People You Meet in Heaven

Author: Mitch Albom
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Some stories are destined to begin with their endings—after all, aren’t all endings also beginnings? The Five People You Meet in Heaven concludes with Morrie’s sudden passing. Six years later, in Mitch Albom’s new work, non-fiction becomes fiction; death transforms from an ending into a beginning. The protagonist remains an elderly man—not a wise professor, but a retired veteran, a carnival worker who, to the very end, remains uncertain about his own life. His name is Eddie. On his eighty-third birthday, he dies at the carnival 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 of Earthly life fragments. Five people he has either remembered, ignored, or forgotten take turns appearing, guiding him to search for lost time and unravel the mysteries of life. Invisibly, a giant chain seems to stretch across the heavens and Earth, with Eddie as just one link. The Five People You Meet in Heaven makes every reader a link in the chain, sharing the same secret: in heaven, there will be five people waiting for you to grow, to love, to age, to die, waiting to answer your final questions. Because, each of us affects another, and all the myriad stories in the world are ultimately the same. Some stories are destined to begin with their endings—after all, aren’t all endings also beginnings? The Five People You Meet in Heaven concludes with Morrie’s sudden passing. Six years later, in Mitch Albom’s new work, non-fiction becomes fiction; death transforms from an ending into a beginning. The protagonist remains an elderly man—not a wise professor, but a retired veteran, a carnival worker who, to the very end, remains uncertain about his own life. His name is Eddie. On his eighty-third birthday, he dies at the carnival 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 of Earthly life fragments. Five people he has either remembered, ignored, or forgotten take turns appearing, guiding him to search for lost time and unravel the mysteries of life. Invisibly, a giant chain seems to stretch across the heavens and Earth, with Eddie as 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, to love, to age, to die, waiting to answer your final questions. Because, each of us affects another, and all the myriad stories in the world are ultimately the same.