Mitch Albom is an author, playwright, and screenwriter who has written
seven books, including the international bestseller Tuesdays with
Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time. His first novel, The Five
People You Meet in Heaven, was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller,
as were For One More Day, his second novel, and Have a Little Faith, his
most recent work of nonfiction. All four books were made into acclaimed
TV films. Albom also works as a columnist and a broadcaster and has
founded seven charities in Detroit and Haiti, where he operates an
orphanage/mission. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan.
Book Description:
Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old
Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the
novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes
away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park.
Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his
funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and
adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back
to Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress
report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread
of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man
sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la
A Christmas Carol).
Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals,
each life (and death) was woven into Eddie's own in ways he never
suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a
lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own
life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs.
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