To Heaven and Back: a doctor's extraordinary account of her death, heaven, angels, and life again: a true story / Mary C. Neal / 222 pgs.

Dr. Mary Neal tells her extraordinary story of her kayaking accident in Chile where she drowned, was clinically dead, and then came back to life.  She claims that she went to Heaven, conversed with Angels, and then made the choice to return to her life.

Her story has a lot of similarities with other near death experience stories that I've read.  What I like about this narrative is that I feel like Dr. Neal does not have an agenda, and it does not seem like she is making money or a career off of this experience.  This story does get a tad preachy, but she was a very religious person before and definitely after her experience, so the religious tone is expected and not out of place.  Still no direct answers to the big questions, "why are we here", "what is our purpose", but a very well written book about someone's life that give you plenty to think about.