The Stranger in the Lifeboat The Stranger in the Lifeboat

The Stranger in the Lifeboat

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Publisher Description

#1 New York Times Bestseller

What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? In Mitch Albom’s profound new novel of hope and faith, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from the sea. He claims to be “the Lord.” And he says he can only save them if they all believe in him.

Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, ten people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in.

“Thank the Lord we found you,” a passenger says.

“I am the Lord,” the man whispers.

So begins Mitch Albom’s most beguiling novel yet.

Albom has written of heaven in the celebrated number one bestsellers The Five People You Meet in Heaven and The First Phone Call from Heaven. Now, for the first time in his fiction, he ponders what we would do if, after crying out for divine help, God actually appeared before us?

In The Stranger in the Lifeboat, Albom keeps us guessing until the end: Is this strange man really who he claims to be? What actually happened to cause the explosion? Are the survivors in heaven, or are they in hell? The story is narrated by Benji, one of the passengers, who recounts the events in a notebook that is discovered—a year later—when the empty life raft washes up on the island of Montserrat. It falls to the island’s chief inspector, Jarty LeFleur, a man battling his own demons, to solve the mystery of what really happened. 

A fast-paced, compelling novel that makes you ponder your deepest beliefs, The Stranger in the Lifeboat suggests that answers to our prayers may be found where we least expect them.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2021
November 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
Harper
SELLER
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
SIZE
2.5
MB

Customer Reviews

danieluniss53 ,

The Stranger in the Lifeboat

Most of it was pretty good. A lot of unanswered questions and some answers were very aloof.
Happy Reading!

NoBrainerToMe ,

Stranger in Lifeboat

Loved the originality of the story. The author took too many liberties in trying to make it believable. Especially knowing that the boat sinking would have been investigated immediately and that knowing the currents would have made a rescue probable and that bodies would have floated. Otherwise excellent story helping us to understand that the lord is always with us in the darkest of times.

josieleelo ,

Lifeboat

Mitch does it again. Always solid life lessons and thought provoking stories.

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