From the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Tuesays with Morrie comes this long-awaited followup, an exchanting, beautifully crafted novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold.
 
Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. As the park has changed over the years- from the loop-the-loop to the Pipeline Plunge-so, too, has Eddie changed, from optimistic youth to embittered old age. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret.
 
Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a life girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands inhis-and then nothing. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly  life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved once or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. 
 
One by one, Eddie’s five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life.  As the story builds to it’s stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or devastating failure? The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself.
 
In The Five People you Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you’ve  ever thought about the afterlife-and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure.