Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"...
This, the 3rd book from Mitch Albom, is truly a masterpiece of art about life. The concept of heaven is very interesting: it's not a place where you fly over cotton candy-like clouds and sweet cream mountain or whatever, it is WHERE you must face the truth and the lessons from life, no matter how bitter it may seems. Only 5 people can tell you the answers to the secrets that you have seek, only that you may rest in peace. It is a dedication to the unrest soul. Again, I won't recommend it for anybody since the subject is philosophy so many of you guys would fall asleep after a while.
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