For One More Day by Mitch Albom - By the author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays With Morrie I kept seeing this book being promoted at Starbucks (where, I must admit, I spend much more time than anyone should...Venti Skim Chai, No Foam, Please!). I decided to finally pick up a copy and see what all the buzz is about for myself. What transpired was a wonderful, soul-touching story of a mother's love and a son's acceptance...after just one more day.
Chick Benetto lived his life trying to please his absent father, often at the expense of his ever-present mother. Chick chased his father's dream of a career in baseball, shunning his mother's dream of a college education. After a series of downfalls, including losing his job, his wife, and his daughter, Chick attempts suicide and instead is given a chance most of us would do anything to have...he is given a chance to make things right and turn his life around by spending one more day with his mother who died eight years prior. Albom writes simply and directly with phrases that often zing right to the heart. The lessons Chick learns are ones we all need to heed. Several sections are entitled "Times I Didn't Stand Up for My Mother," and "Times My Mother Stood Up For Me." For One More Day is truly a love letter to mothers. Whether you've lost your mother or you're lucky enough to still have yours in your life, this book will strike a cord in your heart and make you think...possibly even more than you'd like.
I HAVE to include the following review since it was written by the author of my most favorite book ever...
"If you had the chance, just one chance, to go back and fix what you did wrong in life, would you take it? And if you did, would you be big enough to stand it? Mitch Albom, in this new book, once again demonstrates why he is one of my favorite writers: a fearless explorer of the wishful and magical, he is also a devout believer in the power of love. For One More Day will make you smile. It will make you wistful. It will make you blink back tears of nostalgia. But most of all, it will make you believe in the eternal power of a mother's love." --James McBride, author of The Color of Water
