Five you will meet in Heaven

"The story you are going to read is a guess, a wish, in a way, that the people who did not feel their importance here in this world will realize how important they were, and how much they were loved."

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Eddie exudes the image of a prisoner in a meaningless life, repairing toys in an oceanfront amusement park and going through the motions of work, loneliness, and heartbreak.On his eighty-third birthday, he is killed in a tragic accident and awakens in the afterlife, where he discovers that heaven is not as he imagined it, but rather a place where five people who were in your life meet you to explain crucial things to you that you did not realize at the time.

One by one, these people answer Eddie's mundane questions and show him how important and meaningful his life-and every life on earth-is.

Thus, we find ourselves immersed in a beautiful and inspiring story, one that changes our ideas about the meaning of life, one in which we find solace and learn to look with a different eye at life's setbacks and injustices we think we are facing.

It is a tale about the life of this world and the afterlife, a tale that you will devour when you fall in love, a tale you will keep by your side when you feel lost, a story you will return to again and again, because it has a rare magic that makes you see yourself and the world from a new perspective. This novel is truly a gift to the soul. As described by author Amy Tan,

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"A book that has a real power that makes it touch the hearts of the readers, and it offers them consolation and solace." (The New York Times).