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For One More Day 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?
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.
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.
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.
What follows is the one ordinary day so many of us yearn for, a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets, and to seek forgiveness. Somewhere between this life and the next, Charley learns the astonishing things he never knew about his mother and her sacrifices. And he tries, with her tender guidance, to put the crumbled pieces of his life back together.
Through Albom's inspiring characters and masterful storytelling, readers will newly appreciate those whom they love--and may have thought they'd lost--in their own lives. For One More Day is a book for anyone in a family, and will be cherished by Albom's millions of fans worldwide.
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For One More Day by Mitch Albom, a book that makes you rethink your relationships, and forces you to reassess how you spend your time. Chick Benetto has set out to kill himself. He'd give anything for one more day, one more moment with his mother who has passed. His life has been a bundle of rights and wrongs; in his darkest hour, loneliness, alcohol, and longing mingle together, pushing him over the edge. Despite this, 'You can find something truly important in a minute.' and sometimes that thing of importance gifts you the motivation to keep going. This book, holds so much emotion. You are put into the shoes of a man who wants to kill himself and in his attempts he experiences moments with his deceased mother that he never could have dreamed possible.In some ways the concept of this book reminded me of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Chick Benetto is very much a changed man by the end of his tale, and to get to that point he had endured a visit from the ghost of his mother, and recollections of his childhood. There is no doubt that readers will feel the need to reassess their own lives, sitting face to face with their childhoods and versions of themselves that have come to pass. The tale itself compels you to do so, I think it is our empathetic human nature that reacts to this book, making us consider parents as people, anger as misunderstanding, and loss as unconditional love.Albom has written this book with a flowing conversation-like dialogue that makes you feel as though Chick is sat on Bleachers of The Little League Field with you telling his story. This book is for readers prepared to feel something. Readers prepared to grieve on behalf of Benetto and perhaps for themselves, as they see glimpses of their own lives between the lines of this story.
For One More Day punya premis cerita yang simpel tapi deep. Seperti kalimat yang sudah tertulis di blurb-nya: "Apa yang akan kau lakukan seandainya kau diberi satu hari lagi bersama orang yang kau sayangi, yang telah tiada?"Buku ini sendiri lebih banyak menyoroti hubungan antara si tokoh utama, Chick, dan ibunya. Sepanjang cerita, pembaca bakal diajak melihat masa kecil Chick yang .... yah, bisa dibilang nyesek pake banget. Mulai dari jadi korban perceraian, punya ayah toxic, sampai harus menghadapi cemoohan masyarakat gara-gara Ibunya yang menjadi wanita janda. Walau kebanyakan isinya adalah flashback, narasinya tergolong mengalir dan page turner, jadi masih nyaman untuk diikuti. Hal lain yang membuat buku ini menarik, menurutku adalah karakter Posey sebagai seorang ibu. Posey ini mungkin adalah gambaran Ibu impian banyak orang: penyayang, pekerja keras, cekatan, kadang juga bisa bertingkah kocak. Lewat sudut pandang Chick, aku jadi menyadari tentang betapa berharga sosok Posey bagi dirinya, dan juga bagaimana hancurnya hidup Chick setelah kematian sang Ibu.Alurnya di bawa naik turun dan lumayan nggak ketebak, sampai-sampai aku tanpa sadar sudah nangis begitu cerita ini mencapai bagian klimaks. Tidak hanya menyampaikan kisah tentang kematian dan kasih sayang seorang Ibu, For One More Day rupanya juga membawa makna yang lebih mendalam, yaitu tentang memaafkan diri sendiri. Salah satu kalimat dari Posey yang sukses membuatku teriris-iris. Pendek, sederhana, tapi begitu mendalam: “Seorang anak tidak seharusnya memilih.”
I read this book right after it came out and finished it in about 2 days. I really enjoyed the story and characters. It made me think a lot about loved ones I have lost and how great it would be to have at least one more day with them to tell them all the things I felt about them and say I love you, one last time.