A Christmas gift from the bride, this book is the sixth offering from the sports write Mitch Albom, and the second that I have had the pleasure to read.
Published in 2013 by Sphere, which is described as an imprint of the Little Brown Book Group, the book is 308 pages long.
The story is about grieving people in the small town of Coldwater, who have the unbelievable fortune to receive phone calls from their passed loved ones. Some of the people offer testament in church and subsequent reaction is an overblown media event. One grieving person has just been released from a year in jail, for an event that precipitated his wife's death. Their son is only seven and desperate to hear from his departed mother. The son's desire has triggered a protective instinct in the father who hopes to deflect disappointment from the son's possible discovery that h the calls are a hoax. On his quest, the father, Sully, researches the departed obits and searches for the source. What Sully finds is the truth about the calls, the truth about the cause of his imprisonment and in the end his own connection to his departed wife.
It is good short read, worth the effort.
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