For One More Day
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For One More Day is a 2006 novel by the acclaimed sportswriter and author Mitch Albom. It is about a suicidal man whose whole adulthood has been full of sadness. His daughter didn't even invite or tell him about her wedding. His mother has been dead for 8 years and he is allowed one more day to spend with her after he tried to kill him self. This is also a very powerful book about the absolute ties that bind a family together, and how easy it is to take the people closest to us for granted.
With all of his books he has one main outlying theme through out this book and this two others ( Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven). The theme that is run thoughout them is the idea of love and how that is the biggest influence in people's lives.
The Boston Globe said "Albom has the ability to make you cry in spite of yourself." Fellow sports commentator Bob Costas said, "Mitch Albom writes with insight and compassion." Also the Cleveland Plain Dealer said, "Albom has a gift for tapping into readers' sincerely sentimental spots." [1]
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- Synopsis:
As a child, Charley 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 him disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence. Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been destroyed by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits rock bottom after being mailed two pictures of his daughter's wedding day in the mail. He didn't even know that she was engaged. He soon after decides to travel back to the town he grew up in, and take his own life. In a drunken haze, Charley makes a midnight ride to his small hometown: his final journey. But as he staggers into his old house he makes an astonishing discovery. His mother - who died eight years earlier - is there, and welcomes Charley home as if nothing had ever happened.
What follows is the one seemingly 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.
