Book Review: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Author: Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom is a famous American author, journalist and musician.

Publication Date: 2003

Number of pages: 196

The story follows the life and death of an 83 year old man Eddie who was a ride mechanic in an amusement park. He dies in an attempt to save the life of a little girl from accident in the park.

When he dies, he arrives in heaven and meets five people, some he knew and some strangers, who had impacted his life in some way or the other. Or whose life had been impacted by him.

Why should you pick this book?

The forthcoming story tells us that all lives are interconnected. Nobody should think that they are alone in this world. Even insignificant actions by some one can have a profound reaction on people around him.

It shows that no form of life is meaningless. Every life has a purpose and we should believe it when we are alive and never think that our existence in worthless. The story also teaches the importance of forgiveness. Keeping a grudge against someone or something for the whole life destroys only one person… and that is you yourself.

Moreover, it throws some light on the cycle of life and death. Life might be the beginning but death is never the ending. Death is merely a transition to another form of existence. Eddie gets all these lessons from the people he meets in heaven.

The author gives us an idea about the age old question: What happens after death? Although it is his own interpretation but its worth reading. Overall, its an amazing read!

Quotes:

“All endings are also beginnings. we just don’t know it at that time.”

“There are no random acts.. we are all connected… you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate breeze from the wind.”

“Holding anger is a poison… it eats you from inside. We think that by hating someone we hate them. But hatred is a curved blade. The harm we do to others, we also do to ourselves.”

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