The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
Eddie, an amusement-park maintenance man, dies saving a child and meets five people whose lives his touched or who touched his, each explaining a piece of his life he never understood. It is a short, sentimental, very effective novel about meaning and connection.
Read it if…
you want a story that makes the case that every life matters.
Skip it if…
you resist sentiment; this is built from it.
Three things you will actually use
- No life is wasted.
- Sacrifice is not loss.
- Connections you never saw were there.
Do this first
Read it in an evening and write your own five people.
Our verdict
Every life matters, as a story.
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