The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom truly is a story about what happens after death.

The author, Mitch Albom gives the reader a very interesting view that afterlife is not the fluffy white clouds of heaven we have imagined but an explanation for what has happened in one’s life and answers the question we all want to know: Why was I put here?

The story follows Eddie, a ride maintenance worker at Ruby Pier, who has worked there ever since he was young and took over it for his father.

Grouchy from age and limping from an old war injury Eddie continues his duties and keeps up with the rides to make sure they’re safe for those on the pier. Although he keeps up on the rides even an accident can occur. Eddie dies on his 83rd birthday trying to save a little girl from being crushed by a falling cart.

The reason for the malfunction isn’t revealed until later in the book, but the reader eventually realizes that accidents like this can’t be predicted. Whether Eddie succeeds in his mission isn’t revealed until the end and the reader occasionally sees that he often wonders if his death was in vain and he died for nothing.

As Eddie goes threw the afterlife he meets five people that were prominent in his life explaining how they affected Eddie’s in some way or another. Each person he meets has his or her own tale and have looks and personalities the reader will never forget.

Five different people with five different stories that teach Eddie the one thing he should have known about life, as much as you may try, no one is an island. In some way or another one person has at least five people that had changed their life or they have changed another’s..

And after life’s journey one can rest in their favorite spot and wait to explain a portion of someone else’s life to them. Mitch Albom gives us an astonishing tale that will change the reader views on what happens in the afterlife and will make one ask yet another question:

Who are my five people?