Heavenly Fiction

Perennial best-seller Mitch Albom goes heavenly again with his latest novel The First Phone Call from Heaven (2013). Sully Harding a disgraced pilot returns to Coldwater, Michigan his hometown after being released from prison for an act of negligence he did not commit. Depressed and still grieving for his wife, Sully tries to start a new life with his young son Jules. As Sully tries to cope  select townspeople begin receiving telephone calls from deceased family members and acquaintances. A local television station reporter does a story on the "miracle phone calls from heaven" and a media-frenzy ensues and quiet Coldwater becomes a hot-spot for religious and anti-religious zealots. Sully's skepticism compels him to find out if these phone calls are a hoax or truly a miracle from heaven. "What if the end is not the end?" A beautiful and smart page-turner about the nature of miracles and enduring love.  Be sure to check out these other heavenly novels.

Can't Wait to get to Heaven: a novel by Fannie Flag
Golfing with God by Roland Merullo
The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Ray in Reverse by Daniel Wallace