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For One More Day | 
 enlarge | Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
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Rating:  373 reviews
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Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1401309577
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781401309572
ASIN: 1401309577
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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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.
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 Touching story about a mother's love May 16, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've read "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "Five People You Meet in Heaven", so when I found out that Mitch Albom had a new book, I had to buy it. I just finished it - only took 2 days. As with the other 2 books, it's an easy read, but mostly it's a compelling story. As a person who lost a parent at a relatively young age, the stories and images in "For One More Day" really touched me on so many levels. It was heart-warming as well as heart-breaking. I guess that's the story of so many families. I highly recommend this book. If it doesn't make you want to kiss your mother and buy her some flowers, I don't know what will!
Read This Book -- Then Call Your Mother! October 11, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you had the chance to go back in time and spend a day with a loved one that passed on, and be able to say all the things you wanted to tell them but never did, would you have the emotional strength to do it? That is the basic premise of Mitch Albom's very poignant new book, For One More Day. While some reviewers criticize this book for being sappy and intentionally trying to "pull on your heartstrings," I found it to be a well-written, sentimental fable that made me self-reflect on my own relationship with my parents. In the course of my hectic life, I have, at times, made excuses to myself for not giving them the attention they deserved. While I cannot go back and tell my father how much I appreciated all that he did for me when he was alive, For One More Day made me realize that it is not too late to do so with my 89 year-old mother. For One More Day is a book I'd highly recommend to you, and especially so if you've lost a parent.
Another Hit Novel from Mitch Albom May 21, 2007
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
Having read Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet
in Heaven, this book was another great addition to Mitch Albom's
ongoing collection of hit novels. When I first read the first two
books, I had bought them shortly after borrowing them from the
bookstore, so when I saw this on the shelf I knew I would enjoy it so
I bought it. This book is the is the story of Charles "Chick"
Benetto's rise to Major League "stardom" and his plummet to shabby
drunk including all the people he hurts in the process. The book
focuses on Chick's attempt to completely demolish himself, and the
rescue he receives at the side of his dead mother. One of the first
lines in the book state how "every family is a ghost story" (Albom),
but it really isn't. It's about what the mind keeps in remembrance of
someone who has gone and passed away. It is about the pain that one
goes through and how they can be healed, but only by choosing to
repair themselves before it gets too late. This book is an overall
quick, enlightening read, suitable for all ages, and a book which
everyone should experience.
This book was an attempt to reach to viewers and change their own
view on their mothers. Through each of the chapters, Chick Benetto
reflects on two main things: "Times My Mother Stood Up For Me" and
"Times I Didn't Stand Up For My Mother". These two categories make up
most of the book and recollect all of the events, from his childhood
to later in his life, and discussed all of the different times that he
did not appreciate the things his mother had done for him. In the
first time that his mother stood up for him, he was five, and had
encountered a ferocious German Shepard and his mother barked back at
the dog to show it who is boss. Nothing after that shows how Chick had
reacted to his mother standing up for him. In the first time that he
did not stand up for his mother, his mother had put toilet paper
around him for Halloween, and it had began to rain and when he found
his mother he had yelled "You ruined my life." His mother's reaction
to him yelling at her is not mentioned in the book as well. I found it
ironic how some of the situations I could relate too, and after
telling them too others, they seemed to feel the same way.
This book can be universal to any person and show them how easily they
do not appreciate the things that their mothers do for them. We do not
look back at the times where our parents have stood up for us, and do
not appreciate the little things they do for us and this books showed
me how simple things that my parents do, are only to better me and my
future. While reading this book, I felt that we as children do not see
our parents as average human beings, like our friends, but seem them
as someone who is just there. We as individuals do not necessarily
honor our parents for the sacrifices they make in our lives to provide
us with a better life. This book had really opened my eyes to the
things my parents do for me, even the little things which account for
so much. Even though I was never the type to read a lot of books, this
book is one everyone should read and I would recommend it to anyone,
because everyone should know how far their parents would go to stand
up for them.
From: Anthony Lee
One of 2006's most inspiring reads November 7, 2006
22 out of 27 found this review helpful
Albom, who previously grabbed us by our hearts in "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", does it again in "For One More Day". Masterfully playing with time (moving back and forth between the story's present time and the character's past), surprising the reader along the way and tactfully relating to emotions most of us are bound to experience at some point in our lives, he tells the tale of Charley Benetto, a retired baseball player left to rot outside the sport of his dreams, and his one-day reunion with his mom... who had passed away years before.
The book doesn't score as high as "Tuesdays with Morrie", arguably Albom's best, but it does match his accomplishment with "The Five People..." by forcing us to contemplate our lives from the standpoint of forks in the road, what ifs, the choices we make in life and the consequences they carry along. In doing so Albom earns the book a solid five stars and my personal recommendation as one of 2006's most inspiring reads.
A SHORT BOOK, BUT A BEAUTIFUL STORY. October 27, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
If Mitch Albom is the author, you can be sure the book will be worth the read and bring more than a few tears. In "For One More Day" Mitch plays a tribute to his departed mother. It is often said that "Losing a mother is like losing a part of one's self." My mother passed away 26 years ago and like Charley, the main character in this book, I was not present at the time she died and now there are so many questions that will never be answered. Do we really know our mothers, or do we only know the part they want us to see? What feelings and emotions does she keep from us? As a child, what was her favourite toy, who was her best friend, her first little girl crush? For anyone who has lost a mother, this book will bring back memories of childhood. How many of us wish we could have "just one more day" with her? Believe it or not, after Charley's mother dies, he gets his day with her and comes to realize there was an enormous amount about his mother he did not know. He learns an important lesson about life and love that some people never come to master. Albom has written a beautiful and inspiring book written in a gently flowing style.
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