The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel

Book, 2021, 288 pp

What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared?

Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, nine 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.

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.

In The Stranger in the Lifeboat, Mitch Albom ponders what we would do if, after crying out for divine help, God actually appeared before us? What might the Lord look, sound and act like? Albom keeps us guessing until the end: Is this strange and quiet man really who he claims to be? What actually happened to cause the explosion? Are the survivors already in heaven, or are they in hell?

As The Stranger in the Lifeboat suggests, answers to our prayers may be found where we least expect them.

TypePrint
GenreFiction
ExpressionNarrative/Novel/Story
AudienceAdults
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN9780062888341

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