The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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?"

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 09/23/2003
ISBN: 9780786868711
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.30w x 0.74d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/18/2003 pg. 55
Booklist 09/01/2003 pg. 5
Library Journal 09/15/2003 pg. 89
Entertainment Weekly 12/26/2003 pg. 153

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 74597 / Five People You Meet in Heaven
Reading Level: 4.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 6