The First Phone Call From Heaven - Mitch Albom

The First Phone Call From Heaven

Author: Mitch Albom

Release Date: 12/11/2013
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From the beloved author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven comes his most thrilling and magical novel yet—a page-turning mystery and a meditation on the power of human connection.

One morning in the small town of Coldwater, Michigan, the phones start ringing. The voices say they are calling from heaven. Is it the greatest miracle ever? Or some cruel hoax? As news of these strange calls spreads, outsiders flock to Coldwater to be a part of it.

At the same time, a disgraced pilot named Sully Harding returns to Coldwater from prison to discover his hometown gripped by "miracle fever." Even his young son carries a toy phone, hoping to hear from his mother in heaven.

As the calls increase, and proof of an afterlife begins to surface, the town—and the world—transforms. Only Sully, convinced there is nothing beyond this sad life, digs into the phenomenon, determined to disprove it for his child and his own broken heart.

Moving seamlessly between the invention of the telephone in 1876 and a world obsessed with the next level of communication, Mitch Albom takes readers on a breathtaking ride of frenzied hope.

The First Phone Call from Heaven is Albom at his best—a virtuosic story of love, history, and belief.

Reviews

Disappointing.
Beatit!
17-02-2014
Read this as a suggestion from a book club member and I found it intriguing at times, but never exciting or the type of book that has me enthralled. I found it to be long and skipped pages were tv news reports were written as I found it to be redundant and gimmicky. At around page 255, the book began to feel corny and hookey.
The second last chapter where his revelation about the call from his wife is discovered is queer and awkward as is the last two sentences in that chapter about life, God and belief.
I really don't think I could recommend this book to anyone as it was a novel that I did not enjoy.
Albom's opinion about the afterlife would be better subject matter if it hadn't been so obvious and shoved in the reader's nose.