For One More Day

By Mitch Albom. An amazing book from an author whose imagination is just impressive. He is the author of one of my favourite books, a book that i have actually bought. I had many expectations from this book and it fulfilled them all.

A thin book about a failed baseball catcher, who spends his childhood and teen years yearning to play baseball in the World Series. Which he does but it lasted for only 6 weeks. Too little too late.

This is the story about his mother, who at a time when divorce was frowned upon, got divorced and raised her 2 children all by herself. Though she did everything she could, Charlie 'Chick' Bennetto was a daddy's boy. Yearning for the days when his dad used to be home. In this struggle for approval from a non-existant dad, he ignored his mother and never gave her credit for the times she stood up for him.

When she dies, all he can think of is wanting one more day with his mother to apologize for letting her down, for telling her that he loves her. And he gets that one day. Books like this dont come along very often.