Even with its flaws, The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a small, pure, and simple book that will find good company on a shelf next to It's A Wonderful Life. In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie’s heavenly reunion with Anniethe little girl he saved on earthin an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect. But, for the most part, Albom's telling remains poignant and is occasionally profound.
Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs.Īlbom takes a big risk with the novel such a story can easily veer into the saccharine and preachy, and this one does in moments. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. 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. Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life. 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). An enchanting, beautifully crafted novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold. 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. 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. 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.
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.
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