Date Posted:16:08:11 08/06/06 Sun Author: Syl Subject: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
This one was sent in by Margy. Thanks, Margy!!
TITLE: The Five People You Meet in Heaven
AUTHOR: Mitch Albom
GENRE: Fiction
Despite the title, this is not a religious book. This is a great book though - a life affirming book, and a great story.
This is the story of Eddie. On his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies at Ruby Pier, a fun fair where he has worked and lived his entire life.
Eddies death is not the end of the book, but the beginning, and so he begins to meet 5 people in Heaven. These 5 people have been hugely influential in his life, although some of them are complete strangers to him. Through them we follow the story of Eddies life, his childhood, his marriage, his war years, his loneliness and happiness, and his after-life.
Eddie dies when a ride fails, and he acts to save the life of a little girl who is in the path of a falling fair ground cart. He wakes up in the afterlife, and finds that Heaven is not what he expected at all, not some lush Garden of Eden, but a place where he meets with those people who have shaped his life.
This is a quick read novel, but one that will stay with you long after you finish it.
Now I need to go and get Mitch Alboms other novel, Tuesdays with Morrie. That also looks fascinating.
Shari, 08:59:07 08/08/06 Tue