Description: From the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Tuesdays With Morrie comes this long-awaited follow-up, an enchanting, beautifully crafted novel that explores a mystery only heaven can unfold.

Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. As the park has changed over the years -- from the Loop-the-Loop to the Pipeline Plunge -- so, too, has Eddie changed, from optimistic youth to embittered old age. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret.

Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his -- and then nothing. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed y...

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Reviews: "Sincere . . . A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers." --The New York Times

"Simply told, sentimental, and profoundly true, this is an contemporary American fable that will be cherished by a vast readership." --Publishers Weekly

"Fans of Tuesdays With Morrie will be delighted with this novel." --People