For One More Day: Mitch Albom

Albom tenderly explores the themes of family, divorce and regrets and the wish that we could have just one more day with a lost loved one.

`Every family is a ghost story...`

As a child, Charley 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 him disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence.

Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been destroyed by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits rock bottom after discovering he won`t be invited to his only daughter`s wedding. And he decides to take his own life.

Charley makes a midnight ride to his small hometown: his final journey. But as he staggers into his old house, he makes an astonishing discovery. His mother - who died eight years earlier - is there, and welcomes Charley home as if nothing had ever happened. What follows is the one seemingly 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.