The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel

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I suspect that I may have to come back to edit this review with more thoughts on this gripping story. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Days after billionaire Jason Lambert’s luxury yacht Galaxy suddenly sinks in the North Atlantic with many illustrious passengers aboard, a few survivors float in a life raft. Reading spiritual fiction is weiiird because I am a believer so it kind of puts pressure on me "hey you should appreciate this" AND I DO.

Now, for the first time in his fiction, he ponders what we would do if, after crying out for divine help, God actually appeared before us? On land in the present, LeFleur reads the various journal entries and is affected by reading this first-hand account of suffering and death, most especially thanks to his own experience with death.The novel opens with an unspecified number of people helping an unnamed young man onto a boat in an unnamed location.

Published in 2021, The Stranger in the Lifeboat is Albom’s seventh fiction novel, and it instantly became a New York Times bestseller. Having read "Tuesdays with Morrie" multiple times as well as some of his others, I expected to be inspired by his latest. It’s almost evangelical in its essence, and that’s a direction I never enjoy, though I am a practising Christian. In The Stranger in the Lifeboat, Albom keeps us guessing until the end: Is this strange and quiet man really who he claims to be? An impromptu celebration on the beach at sunset with champagne becomes a weekly touchpoint to their lives as they learn more about each other and themselves.

Soon, that world is upended: The Germans march into Paris and refugees flee south, overrunning Viann’s land. Meanwhile, the reader discovers they are privy to the events that occurred at sea due to the fact that the character Benji had written everything down in a diary, a diary which is discovered by LeFleur, who is able to read the diary entries over the span of a few days while dealing with the fallout of the discovery of the lifeboat (the boat which had contained the diary). He is an author, a newspaper columnist for the Detroit Free Press, and a nationally syndicated radio host for ABC. That said I had some thoughts quite early on about a possible outcome and wasn't far off the truth I guess.

Her long-estranged younger sister, Isabelle, who has been kicked out of multiple convent schools, is sent to Le Jardin by Julien, their father in Paris, a drunken, decidedly unpaternal Great War veteran. To access you ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. One of the passengers, Benji, keeps a journal documenting each day, reflecting on his guilt over the accident, and expressing his love for his wife. Filled with thought provoking insights, hope and finding a pathway to forgiveness of yourself and others. The author was also probably trying to show that Benji is not a cruel person, for reasons that will become clear later on in the story.Without hope, humanity is lost, so I strive always to believe that we each have our small, peculiar purpose on this earth. What would you do if the lord appeared in front of you and you wanted answers to his actions and your own. I don’t know how he does it, but this is my eighth Albom novel and, incredibly, they just keep getting better and better! I know that these thoughts will chase each other in my mind for weeks to come - and this is the sign of a good book. He represented the wealth and privilege Benji did not have, and he resented that it cost his wife's life, because he couldn't afford her medical treatments.