Mitch Albom

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. So begins Mitch Albom's most beguiling and inspiring novel yet. The story is narrated by Benji, one of the passengers, who recounts the events in a notebook that is later discovered - a year later - when the empty life raft washes up on the island of Montserrat.

The Stranger in the Lifeboat

Haleigh Marshall

"Let me get this straight," Yannis said. "God decided to drop from the sky, swim to this raft, and start talking to us?" "I talk to you all the time," he said. "I came here to listen »

Were we at home, she'd be in a hospital for sure. But out here, adrift, you realize how often we take our placement on this Earth for granted.

Cassandra Tang

We secretly think there will be a late reprieve, a medical advance, a new drug that staves off our mortality. It’s an illusion, of course, something to shield us from our fear of the unknown. But it only works until death presents itself so plainly that you cannot ignore it.

But being quiet and being invisible are not the same thing.

This was the story he told himself, and the stories we tell ourselves long enough become our truths.

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