For One More Day -- Mitch Albom

<b>From the author of <i>The Five People You Meet in Heaven</i> and <i>Tuesdays with Morrie</i>, a new novel that millions of fans have been waiting for.</b><br><i>Every family is a ghost story . . .</i><br> Mitch Albom mesmerized readers around the world with his number one <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers, <i>The Five People You Meet in Heaven</i> and <i>Tuesdays with Morrie</i>. Now he returns with a beautiful, haunting novel about the family we love and the chances we miss. <p/><i>For One More Day</i> is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? <p/> As a child, Charley Chick Benetto was told by his father, You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So he chooses his father, only to see the man disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence. <p/> Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been crumbled by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits bottom after discovering his only daughter has shut him out of her wedding. And he decides to take his own life. <p/> He makes a midnight ride to his small hometown, with plans to do himself in. But upon failing even to do that, he staggers back to his old house, only to make an astonishing discovery. His mother--who died eight years earlier--is still living there, and welcomes him home as if nothing ever happened. <p/> Wh