Five People You Meet In Heaven is an ‘uplifting’ book that once started, you want to read without interruption until you get to the last page. Mitch Albom writes about an ordinary maintenance man in a smooth, easy to read way. The story starts at the end and is about Eddie who finds himself in heaven after a freak accident. Eddie’s life is told by the five people he meets in heaven and he learns how his life touched theirs without his even knowing them and he discovers why he followed a path in life he never intended to.