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For One More Day

By Mitch Albom

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| Hardcover | 9781401303297

Book Description

This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his fatherand she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years.Continue

This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his fatherand she dies while he is gone. This haunts him for years. It unravels his own young family. It leads him to depression and drunkenness. One night, he decides to take his life. But somewhere between this world and the next, he encounters his mother again, in their hometown, and gets to spend one last day with herthe day he missed and always wished hed had. He asks the questions many of us yearn to ask, the questions we never ask while our parents are alive. By the end of this magical day, Charley discovers how little he really knew about his mother, the secret of how her love saved their family, and how deeply he wants the second chance to save his own.

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  • 1 person find this helpful

    "This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might call it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone." So begins For One More Day, a novel by the author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heav ... (continue)

    "This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might call it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone." So begins For One More Day, a novel by the author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven. This slender fable poses a simple yet almost infinitely resonant question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? Charley Benetto's miraculous reunion with his deceased mother offers him -- and us -- a springboard into possibilities. A fiction that seems palpably real.

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    ― meganzing said on Sep 27, 2007 | Add your feedback

  • The story is started and ended on the title

    If this is a true story, I would say it has some tension to catch one's eyes. Author has this idea to elaborate on "one more day" with the one you love, but he wasn't doing a good job to really make reader think about how you would like to spend this precious day with your love one.

    The protag ... (continue)

    If this is a true story, I would say it has some tension to catch one's eyes. Author has this idea to elaborate on "one more day" with the one you love, but he wasn't doing a good job to really make reader think about how you would like to spend this precious day with your love one.

    The protagonist had spent most of "his day" with her mom to reflect what they had been through. Not until the last minute that he would say "sorry" about his conduct to cause himself pain for the rest of his life. The revelation has little merit besides to give himself a closure on his absence of her mom's death. He only need one minute but one full day for his purpose.

    As for so many other books, the idea is revealed for your reflection, and the story is started and ended on the title.

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    ― artie said on Jan 10, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • A man tells the story of why he tried to commit suicide, and what happened afterward.
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    An interesting novel that had an involving plot line. I'm going to check out other titles by this author.

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    ― Miraclesmommadesigns said on Nov 27, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • Made me Cry

    This book is amazing, and it helped give me insight into how someone else deals with death and loss- and the loss of one's own life, and value of one's own life. It really made me think, and cry, and put myself in someone else's shoes.

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    ― Running Fox said on Sep 1, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • For One More Day

    A touching story about a lost soul that gets to spend one more day with the person who loves him more than anyone else.

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    ― Readingrat said on Dec 5, 2007 | Add your feedback

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