The story you are about to read is nothing but a guess, a wish, in a way, that people who didn’t feel important here in this world would realize how important and how loved they were. Eddie feels imprisoned in a meaningless life, fixing rides at an amusement park overlooking the ocean, and spending the rest of his life in a boring routine of work, loneliness, and heartbreak. On his eighty-third birthday, he is killed in a tragic accident and wakes up in the afterlife, where he discovers that heaven is not what he imagined, but rather a place where five people who were in your life meet you and explain crucial things you didn’t realize at the time. One by one, these people answer Eddie’s worldly questions and show him how important and meaningful his life—and every life on Earth—is. Thus, we find ourselves immersed in a beautiful and inspiring story, a story that changes our ideas about the meaning of life, a story in which we find solace and learn to look differently at life’s setbacks and the injustices we think We are exposed to it. It is a tale of this life and the afterlife, “a tale you will devour when you fall in love, a tale you will keep by your side when you feel lost, a tale you will return to again and again, because it has a rare magic that makes you see yourself and the world from a new perspective. This novel is a gift for the soul,” as the author Amy Tan described it.