The Five People I Met Up There - Mitch Albom - book

For years, 83-year-old Eddie ensured the fair ran smoothly. Ironically, it was here that he recently died, crushed beneath a ride's gondola while trying to save a little girl's life...
Arriving in the afterlife, he finds himself embarked on a vast, multicolored and multifaceted ocean where, as in a waking dream, he will have five overwhelming and decisive encounters: Marguerite, his lost love, but also his former infantry captain, an old woman with white hair, a mysterious blue man and a very young Asian woman holding, in her little horribly burned fingers, the secret of Eddie and his destiny...