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  • "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 26, 2007 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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『모리와 함께한 화요일』,『천국에서 만난 다섯 사람』의 작가 미치 앨봄의 신작. 당신 인생에서 절대로 잊을 수 없는 단 하나의 사람이 있다면 누구일까? 만일 그 사람과 지나간 하루를 다시 보낼 기회가 주어진다면 당신은 어떻게 하겠는가? 작가가 소설 속에서 던지고 있는 가정이다.

소설의 주인공은 찰리 ‘치코’ 베네토. 그를 당신이라고 해도 좋다. 아니면 당신의 남편, 또는 당신의 아버지일 수도 있다. 전직 프로야구 선수인 50대 남자 찰리는 알콜에 빠져 사랑하는 아내에게 이혼 당하고, 심지어 딸의 결혼식에도 초대받지 못할 정도로 망가져버린 인생을 사는 남자다. 그에게는 아픈 사연이 한 가지 숨어 있다. 어려서 부모가 이혼한 후 어머니 밑에서 자라면서 늘 아버지의 부재를 어머니에게 원망하며 자라온 찰리는, 장성해서 가정을 꾸민 후에도 아버지를 만나느라 어머니를 방치한다. 중요한 가족 모임이 있던 어느 저녁, 어머니의 만류를 뿌리치고 찰리가 또 아버지를 찾아간 사이 어머니는 심장 발작으로 세상을 떠나고 만다.

어머니에 대한 죄책감에 내내 시달리던 찰리는 그 후 하는 일마다 실패를 거듭하고 알콜 중독에 빠져 가족에게까지 버림받는 처지가 된다. 그토록 사랑하던 딸의 결혼 연락조차 받지 못한 찰리는 자살을 결심하고 마지막으로 옛 고향집을 찾아가는데, 거기서 찰리는 멀쩡하게 살아계신 어머니를 재회한다. 그에게 주어진 시간은 단 하루. 그토록 그리워한 어머니를 다시 만난 찰리에게 무슨 일이 벌어질까?

"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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