So I picked out this book because it was small and it was honestly a quick read. I am aware that Mitch Albom's books always have a tone of religiosity to them. They assume that the afterlife is just as the Christian Bible predicts. Despite that, I was curious to see just how he played out this often considered story. 
 One morning in the small town of Coldwater, Michigan, a woman named Tess gets a call from her mother. The problem for her is that her mother had died of Alzheimer's years before. At the same time a woman named Katherine gets a call from her sister, who had also died years before. If it was just one woman, then everyone would have thought she was crazy and Katherine's pastor thought that was it, but when it was two and then three people swearing by this, the small town suddenly becomes the center of the world and of religious and philosophical debate. 
 Sully, a pilot who lost his job because of a series of bad events is disgusted by these calls. He thinks that once someone dies, that's it. His young son however misses his mother and begins to hope for a phone call from her. This motivates Sully to get to the bottom of whatever these calls meant. 
 The story is interesting because it shows how not everyone is ready to start hearing from dead loved ones again. The town becomes chaos and the idea of getting calls from the dead is just not all that appealing to many people. It made me wonder if I would want to hear from my mom in this way and honestly I still don't have an answer. 
 Truth be told the conclusion is kind of disappointing and of course when all is said and done, it turns out to be a hoax, but Sully does get a phone call from his wife and she asks him to let her son keep his faith and not tell him it was all a hoax; and of course the catch is that his wife really is calling from Heaven. Absolute cheese.