The First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens started receiving phone calls. One morning in the small town of Coldwater, Michigan, the phones started ringing. The voices said they were calling from heaven. Is it the greatest miracle ever? Or some cruel hoax?
Albom’s novel is no supernatural mystery; there are no paranormal visitors. Instead, he creates the fictional town of Coldwater in Michigan, USA, and traces how a series of phone calls from the dead affects the lives of their relatives or associates, and then the citizens of Coldwater, with a story that could touch the world at large.
More interesting, is the way Albom balances the fictional story with accounts of the history of the telephone itself, positioning the telephone as a device of love and communication. “But the very first telephonic conversation, between Bell and Thomas Watson, standing in separate rooms, contained these words: Come here. I want to see you. In the uncountable human phone conversations since then, that concept has never been far from our lips.”
A disgraced pilot named Sully Harding returns to Coldwater from prison to discover his hometown gripped by “miracle fever.” Even his young son carries a toy phone, hoping to hear from his mother in heaven. Not content to accept these proclaimed “miracles”, Sully begins to investigate the incidents. Only Sully, convinced there is nothing beyond this sad life, digs into the phenomenon, determined to disprove it for his child and his own broken heart.
A story about the power of belief, moving between communication through telephone and a world obsessed with supernatural communication, and a page-turner that will touch your soul--Albom's masterful storytelling has never been so moving and unexpected.
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