Five People You Meet In Heaven

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The book that I read and had truly warmed my heart up is a fiction book called “Five People You Meet In Heaven” by Mitch Albom. This book is read as a 1st person and 3rd person. The setting of the story takes place near the beachfront in an amusement park. Eddie is the main character of Five people you meet in Heaven. Albom never specifies Eddie 's last name, but everyone on Ruby Pier calls him "Eddie Maintenance" because that is what is says on his name-tag. The novel begins on the day Eddie dies. At 83, he is a widower with a limp who has been working at Ruby Pier for most of his adult life. Alone and bitter, Eddie sees his life as worthless with nothing in his hands or around him. That day, however, he dies trying to save a child from a falling