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 mamas boy or a daddys boy but you cant 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 Alboms inspiring characters and masterful storytelling readers will newly appreciate those whom they love and may have thought theyd lost in their own lives. For One More Day is a book for anyone in a family and will be cherished by Alboms millions of fans worldwide
