![]() The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom. It’s just my opinion, and I’m sure others will find what they’re looking for in Albom’s new book. There was a resolution, but the characters just didn’t feel alive to me. For some reason, this book just didn’t move me the same way some of Albom’s earlier books did. I’m going to leave the ending and the story of the two men to readers who might want to pick up The Stranger in the Lifeboat. But, when LeFleur finds the notebook hidden on the raft, he reads Benji’s account, looking for his own answers. LeFleur struggles with his own survival and loss of faith after his young daughter died. ![]() Benji writes to the woman he loves to relate the account of life and death on the raft.Ī year later, on the small island of Montserrat, a stranger reports to Inspector Jarty LeFleur that he found a raft washed up. ![]() When they said, thank the Lord we saw you, the man answered, “I am the Lord.” Believers and non-believers didn’t know what to do with that statement. Internationally renowned and New York Times best-selling author Mitch Albom’s latest book, The Stranger in the Lifeboat, ponders what we would do if, after crying out for divine help, God actually appeared before us It’s the story of nine people who struggle for survival at sea following a deadly ship explosion. And, then tried to survive in the Atlantic Ocean.īenjamin Kierney, a crew member from the Galaxy, writes in a notebook, telling the story of survival, and the man they fished from the ocean. When some sort of explosion sank the yacht, only a small group of survivors made it to a raft. The Galaxy was Jason Lambert’s luxury yacht, filled with “important” people, a former President, an ambassador, entertainers, the wealthy. To spread that news, we tell each other stories.”Īlbom tells the story of a shipwreck. “In the end, there is the sea and the land and the news that happens between them. Albom specializes in parables, but this one just didn’t move me. Mitch Albom’s The Stranger in the Lifeboat is the #1 New York Times Bestseller, but I had a difficult time with it.
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