Mitch Albom's For One More Day
Recently, I had an opportunity to relax a bit and actually do some fun, as opposed to work-related, reading. I read an amazing book by Mitch Albom, who is the author of international best sellers, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" and "Tuesdays with Morrie". Mr. Albom wrote another book called "For One More Day".
"For One More Day" is the story of a relationship that is important to many of us as parents - that being the relationship between a mother and a son. It explores the intriguing question, "What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one?"
In the book, Charley Bonato does just that, at a very important stage in his life. Charley was essentially raised alone by his mother and, many years later, as a broken man, he decides to take his own life. After a failed attempt to do just that, he ends up spending "just one more day" with his mother.
As the author notes, the story is about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, it could be called a "ghost story"; every family, however, is a ghost story and the dead sit at your table long after they have gone. It’s the sharing of tales of those we've lost that helps us keep from really losing them.
Tomorrow, I’ll tell you a bit more about this remarkable piece of work.
Till then, all the best – Suzana.
