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Book Review of The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at an amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, which he discovers is a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. Was his life a heroic success or a devastating failure?