the five people you meet in heaven

by Mitch Albom

The story of a man named Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. His life's journey doesn't end when he died at the age of 83, its only the beginning of another path that he must take to complete his cycle of life. The novel narrates Eddie's life from the beginning, as the story progress telling what kind of a person he is, thus saving a little girl's life on the account of his. As we follow him waking up realizing that he was in heaven indeed, a succession of five people who are waiting to show him the true meaning, value, purpose of his life. In which each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, a lesson to share, and an unsuspecting connection in Eddie's life.
The novel only shows that between life and death there is a thin line that connects us from the time we are born and from the time we die, that in that line there is a story woven in our own ways we never suspected. A connection of our lives with other people's lives, overlapping and affects in a way we didn't know.