For One More Day; Mitch Albom

For One More Day

by Mitch Albom

  “Every family is a ghost story . . .”

“ Mitch Albom returns with a new novel in which death is a tender presence. The hero, after a missed attempted suicide, falls upon his mother  who died eight years before. It is an encounter full of love and warmth that eases his torment and erase some regrets. “You need to keep people close,” Albom writes, “You need to give them access to your heart.” Hurry to For One More Day: it is a tender memorial that escapes sentimentality. It is rare.” 

 —Metro (France)

-- This was the first book I ever read, not a required one, in just one sitting. I was just bored alone in the boarding house and I saw this book on the shelf and tried to read it.

As I read the book, I feel too emotional. I seldom read, luckily every time I get the chance to read one, I always feel satisfied at the end of the pages.

For One More Day affected me -- greatly. It touched my deepest emotions. I cried, I laugh, I giggle, I smiled while reading the novel. Every word, every detail nailed me. I can't help but think every detail that I remember after I finish the book.

I read it more than once, I recommended it more than once. Too bad, I have not purchased my own copy. I keep on begging my brother to give me one but it's too thin to be that expensive.

About the book:

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.   Albom has said his relationship with his own mother was largely behind the story of the book, and that several incidents in “For One More Day” are actual events from his childhood.