For One More Day

Book title: For One More Day
Author: Mitch Albom
Amount of pages: 197

Albom is back with yet another inspiring story, you’ll find yourself reading through the pages in the wee hours of the night. The story of Charley Benetto will make you smile and tear in nostalgia as Albom presents to you how one more day with that precious someone can make a huge difference in your life.

For One More Day has a similar concept with Albom’s previous book, The Five People You Meet In Heaven in which the main character died and met five people in another world. However, in Albom’s latest installation of fiction novels, Charley Benetto suffers a mere-death incident and meets his beloved dead mother.

An ex-baseball player and a heavy alcoholic, Benetto’s life is so broken, he doubts if he could ever pick up the pieces and move on in life. Losing his job isn’t the end of everything. But when his only daughter did not invite him to her wedding and his family leaves him, he begins to lose his grip and decides to commit suicide.

As he makes his way back to Pepperville Beach, the place where he grew up, Benetto finds the ghost of his mother awaiting him with open arms. Confused with this strange encounter, he allows himself to be led by his mother into another ordinary day as they walk through the memories of his childhood together.

This is not a ghost story. Neither is it a family account. It is Benetto’s extraordinaire personal encounter just as he was giving up on living. It’s about the ups and downs - relationships, death, childhood memories, dreams – that each one of us have to face in life. And if you will yourself to connect with the story, For One More Day will be an enjoyable easy read.

Short in only 197 pages, this may be a quick read but definitely a relatable one because every one of us has childhood moments which we muse over from time to time. We look back and wish we could change the words we said or the things we did. We wonder what would happen if only we could turn back the hands of time.

Written in a first person’s point of view, you will walk with Benetto as he discovers the person inside of him through the one more day which God has blessed him with. And you will realize life may not always be as bad as we picture it to be. There’s more than just living – there’s life.