Mitch Albom's second novel tells the bittersweet tale of a man named Eddie, a maintenance person for an amusement park where he spent his whole life doing seemingly mundane things. Eddie feels that his repetitive days and routines were the "be all and end all" of his existence, and therefore saw himself and his life as a waste. When one of the amusement park rides threatens to kill a little girl, Eddie dived and saved her--sacrificing his life in the process. He then wakes up in heaven to find that his life and death on Earth is not really the end--in fact, it was only the beginning.

The first sentence of The Five People You Meet in Heaven grabs you by the neck, breathes into you and leaves you gasping and holding on until the novel's very last word. It shows how nothing in life is an accident, how souls are interconnected, how lives--even those of strangers--intersect with yours. It takes you to a world where no one else quite imagined--a heaven that has many steps, a world where you get to "make sense of your yesterdays"--and what more of a heaven could you get than the opportunity to have peace, to understand why you lived the way you did, make amends, and learn to forgive?

Gripping, touching, and eloquent, the novel has gained plenty of praises and good reviews and has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide and is now the most successful hardcover first novel ever (via Albom.com).

“A powerful book” -Time Magazine
“Transcendent” -Atlanta Constitution
“A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers" -The New York Times