BOOK INFORMATION:
Title: For One More Day
Author: Mitch Albom
ISBN: 1401303277
Publisher: Hyperion
Date Published: September 2006
From the Publisher:
From the author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie, a new novel that millions of fans have been waiting for.
“Every family is a ghost story . . .”
Mitch
Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one New York
Times bestsellers, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with
Morrie. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the
family we love and the chances we miss.
For
One More Day is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship
that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would
you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one?
As
a child, Charley “Chick” Benetto was told by his father, “You can be a
mama’s boy or a daddy’s boy, but you can’t be both.” So he chooses his
father, only to see the man disappear when Charley is on the verge of
adolescence. Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been
crumbled by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family.
He hits bottom after discovering his only daughter has shut him out of
her wedding.
And
he decides to take his own life. He makes a midnight ride to his small
hometown, with plans to do himself in. But upon failing even to do
that, he staggers back to his old house, only to make an astonishing
discovery. His mother—who died eight years earlier—is still living
there, and welcomes him home as if nothing ever happened.
What
follows is the one “ordinary” day so many of us yearn for, a chance to
make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets, and to
seek forgiveness. Somewhere between this life and the next, Charley
learns the astonishing things he never knew about his mother and her
sacrifices. And he tries, with her tender guidance, to put the crumbled
pieces of his life back together.
Through
Albom’s inspiring characters and masterful storytelling, readers will
newly appreciate those whom they love—and may have thought they’d
lost—in their own lives. For One More Day is a book for anyone in a
family, and will be cherished by Albom’s millions of fans worldwide. |