The first phone call from heaven
By: Mitch Albom
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780062294371
Subjects: Heaven; Future life; Single fathers; Belief and doubt; City and town life; Fiction
Other titles: 1st phone call from heaven
Description: The story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? As news of these strange calls spreads, outsiders flock to Coldwater to be 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, the author takes readers on a breathtaking ride of frenzied hope. -- From book jacket.
Notes: "A novel"--Cover.