Publication Date:September 26, 2006 Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product 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 father - and 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 her - the day he missed and always wished he'd 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.
Should be so careful who we left out of our livesJuly 31, 2010 To This book reminded me of the song Live Like we're dying! I dk why but it just did, I thought the main plot was to teach us a moral lesson about putting those who care about us first! The story explains itself its a quick and fast read but its a good read with a good moral lesson. This book is about Quality not Quantity and I really enjoyed it! It makes you open up your mind and think about telling those who you love that you love them before its too late. Good read. Fast and enjoyable!
Great reading!July 27, 2010 S. A. Krell(Florida) I love the way Mitch Albom writes! I have all of his books. You really get to know & love his characters. Buy this book, you won't be sorry, I promise!
more uplifting than the lastJuly 16, 2010 Jennifer K. Paweleck-Bellingrodt, Psy.D.(Phoenix, Arizona) in my opinion, albom has a way of reaching his readers by being touching and sad at the same time. i've seen this theme across the three books of his that i've read thus far. i was pleased with this book more than The Five People You Meet in Heaven, though, because it had more of the touching and less of the sad in the end. i believe that children ideally have a special connection with each of their parents, and the story here is about a boy who missed out on that in each of those relationships, one in which he tried and the other in which he didn't. the sad part is that the relationship in which he tried, the one with his dad, left him disappointed; and the relationship in which he didn't, the one with his mom, left him despondent in the end in being an opportunity lost. the good news is that he was given a second chance to have that connection with his mom. albom is not my favorite author, but i keep getting led back to him by others in my life, and i believe there's a reason for this, so i take this to heart. what i do like is that his books are about leaving an imprint and having an imprint left upon you at the same time.
Theres a story behind everythingJuly 5, 2010 Purple Reader If you ever decide to read this book, have a box of Kleenex next to you. This book will leave you smiling, while tears of nostalgia stream out of your eyes. This is a story about a family, more specifically about a broken man, how he broke and how he got fixed. Are you a mama's boy or a daddy's boy? If you knew the answer, then I pity you. No one should choose. Chick Benetto had chosen to be a daddy's boy when he was a kid, and he spent all his life trying to please his old man. Then one day, his daddy left him and his family, and they were left alone. And from then on, he became a mama's boy. His mother was always the soft one, the one that comforted him and nagged him, the one that punished him, and forced him to do his homework. His father was the colder one, the one who didn't show much emotion and didn't seem like he cared about anything. Except baseball. When Chick went to College his mama's dream was for him to study well and get a degree, and get a job. However, he got into that college with a baseball scholarship, and naturally he played baseball in college. And one day, his dad came out of the blue to one of his games. He watched, and didn't say anything; he came the next game too. Then when they finally did speak, his father asked if Chick would like to go around with him, and at this moment Chick could have hurt him, could have done anything, it was his play, but deep down he was still his daddy's boy. And so he obediently listened. His father told him about a minor league baseball team that might want him. Chick dropped out of school, and he let down his mother to please his father. His baseball career lasted about six weeks, he got married had a daughter and became a salesman. Time drifted, and he lost contact with his old man. Until his mothers 79th birthday. He didn't call to say happy birthday to his ex-wife though, he called because he wanted Chick back in the game. Chick lied to his mother and family and left to play baseball. His mother died the next day. He didn't get back into the game. After that, Chick gave his life to alcohol and regret. He regretted going to that game, he regretted so many things. He got divorced, became jobless and when his daughter got married and didn't invite him to the wedding, he lost it. He decided to take his life away. Then he saw his dead mother, and she taught him many things on that last day. She brought him around their old home, just like another regular day, and she loved him like every other day. This book showed me how easily it is to forget what mothers do for us, all the little things that we may find annoying all the nags and worries that mother's do. In the end, his mother saved him, one last time. This was a ghost story. A family story. A mothers story. And a son's story.
For One More DayJuly 5, 2010 Purple Reader If you ever decide to read this book, have a box of Kleenex next to you. This book will leave you smiling, while tears of nostalgia stream out of your eyes. This is a story about a family, more specifically about a broken man, how he broke and how he got fixed. Are you a mama's boy or a daddy's boy? If you knew the answer, then I pity you. No one should choose. Chick Benetto had chosen to be a daddy's boy when he was a kid, and he spent all his life trying to please his old man. Then one day, his daddy left him and his family, and they were left alone. And from then on, he became a mama's boy. His mother was always the soft one, the one that comforted him and nagged him, the one that punished him, and forced him to do his homework. His father was the colder one, the one who didn't show much emotion and didn't seem like he cared about anything. Except baseball. When Chick went to College his mama's dream was for him to study well and get a degree, and get a job. However, he got into that college with a baseball scholarship, and naturally he played baseball in college. And one day, his dad came out of the blue to one of his games. He watched, and didn't say anything; he came the next game too. Then when they finally did speak, his father asked if Chick would like to go around with him, and at this moment Chick could have hurt him, could have done anything, it was his play, but deep down he was still his daddy's boy. And so he obediently listened. His father told him about a minor league baseball team that might want him. Chick dropped out of school, and he let down his mother to please his father. His baseball career lasted about six weeks, he got married had a daughter and became a salesman. Time drifted, and he lost contact with his old man. Until his mothers 79th birthday. He didn't call to say happy birthday to his ex-wife though, he called because he wanted Chick back in the game. Chick lied to his mother and family and left to play baseball. His mother died the next day. He didn't get back into the game. After that, Chick gave his life to alcohol and regret. He regretted going to that game, he regretted so many things. He got divorced, became jobless and when his daughter got married and didn't invite him to the wedding, he lost it. He decided to take his life away. Then he saw his dead mother, and she taught him many things on that last day. She brought him around their old home, just like another regular day, and she loved him like every other day. She fixed him, one last time.
