For One More Day

Mitch Albom, author, "for one more day"









Today, I went to a book signing and book discussion at Starbucks featuring Mitch Albom (author of Tuesdays with Morrie and Five People You Meet In Heaven, among others) and his new book "for one more day". The book's tagline caught my eye: if you could spend just one more day with someone, who would it be and what would you do? I started to think of all the people who have meant something to me...

Mitch described the book as "almost semi-autobiographical" except for the part that his mother is still very much alive. Some of the scenes are straight out of his childhood, he claimed. "for one more day" talks about a man who in his downward tailspin decides to stop at his hometown and starts reminiscing and "talking" to the ghost of his mother. Since he cannot change anything of what has happened, he is forced to look at events that he either missed, forgotten or just couldn't remember. What happens when a grown man is confronted by his past (a not-so-pleasant one at that) forces him to rethink what his original intention was.

The book will make anyone cry...there I said it. I don't care how jaded you think you are...how cold you've become. Men and their mothers is one of the most volatile relationships that exist. And no matter how grown up men become, they always will be these "babies" when it comes to their mothers.

Who would you spend one last 24 hours with? And what would you do? This book is a "must-read", specially for sons.