When He Got to Heaven
A Novel of What Love Looks Like from the Other Side
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When He Got to Heaven
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He died at fourteen. The people who loved him first were waiting.
Eli Mercer wakes in a field of high grass under a sky so blue it looks poured. His grandparents are there — older, familiar, exactly as he remembers them. His grandmother takes his hand and tells him he is safe. His grandfather says there's sweet tea on the porch.
Eli is in Heaven. And Heaven, it turns out, is not a cloud or a choir or a blinding light. It is biscuits and bicycles and a valley that goes on forever and people who chose to look old so he would recognize them.
Back on Earth, his best friend Nolan is carrying a guilt that no fourteen-year-old should have to carry. He saw it coming. He got in the truck anyway. Now he has to learn how to grow up without the person he was supposed to grow up with.
Told in alternating chapters — one boy learning what comes after, one boy learning what comes next — When He Got to Heaven is a novel about the love that outlasts everything, including death.
For anyone who has ever looked at an empty chair and hoped the person who used to fill it is somewhere good.