Five People You Meet In Heaven
(Mitch Albom)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
The person is Eddie. The place is Ruby Ridge. The story is of life and death. It tells of the continuing adventure brought about by their collisions, connections and revelations. Together with these ingredients author Mitch Albom, who also authored Tuesday's With Morrie, helps to expose a more solid textile of human realtionship. He shows the weave.
Eddie is a hardworking, tough and gruff man. He always was, and it always served him well. Like most of us, he has been living the jigsaw puzzle life can be without correlating the pieces. In the process, and unwittingly, Eddie had been contributing and impacting a whole and ongoing life composition.
Most of Eddie's 83 years have been spent at Ruby Ridge. Ruby Ridge is an amusement park much like Coney Island in New York. It is complete with a pier and a history. As the story opens, Eddie has no clue there are only minutes left to his earthly existence. He is about to take a timeless and space less journey into himself.
Eddie's post-life adventure reintroduces him to people he recalls in varying degrees. His life picture comes into focus through five people he meets in Albom's Heaven.
Starting with the sideshow Blueman, whose own death, by some interpretation, is attributable to Eddie, Albom's hero revisits his military experience, Ruby of Ruby Ridge, his wife Marguerite and a little girl whose life was lost the the collateral damage of war.Through these five people Eddie retouches his relationship with a distant father and a younger, brighter brother. He develops understanding that can only come with broader prospective.
Childless himself, Eddie's life is replete with children and they love him for all his gruffness. The event of the end of Eddie's life on Earth involves a child as does his after-death renewal.
Eddie relives birthdays complete with candles, pain, regret, loss and joy. His journey fills the holes of confusion in his life with understanding that gives it meaning. In the process, Albom gives credence to a theory, held by some, that life is like an ongoing tapestry of which we are all stitches.
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