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“The Stranger in the Lifeboat” is no different. His first, “The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” and others, like “The First Phone Call From Heaven,” feature faith and the afterlife prominently. The book is outlined by the seven lessons Albom learned from Chika.Īlbom’s fiction novels also often contain spiritual and religious messages. His other recent nonfiction novel, “Finding Chika,” is similarly moving: Albom and his wife, Janine Sabino, run the Have Faith Orphanage in Haiti, and Chika was a girl who lived with them in America for two years while they searched for treatment for a rare brain tumor. ![]() Albom cites a handful of people in his life for inspiring parts of the answers to these questions, including his late Detroit pastor.Ī sports journalist and author of nine books, Albom is most known for his bestselling 1997 memoir “Tuesdays with Morrie.” It’s this memoir in particular that solidified Albom’s ability to write about the complexities of life and the lessons to be learned from it. It’s not Albom’s most emotionally moving book, despite its lofty material, but it is a well-paced mystery that considers important theological questions. Their survival is chronicled by narrator Benji, who has his own connection to the destruction of the ship. These are the questions at the core of Mitch Albom’s new novel, “The Stranger in the Lifeboat.” After the destruction of the Galaxy, a yacht containing the world’s richest and most famous, ten survivors of varying backgrounds are stranded on a life raft in the middle of the sea. (REVIEW) What would you do if you encountered God, seemingly the same as any other man, and He offered to save your life as long as you believed in Him? Would you believe? What would it take? ![]() “The Stranger in a Lifeboat” by Mitch Albom.
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