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.
