For One More Day By Mitch Albom

Though this book has nearly 200 pages, it took me a surprisingly short time to finish it. It has been a long time since I'm able to finish reading a book within 2 days. The last was when I was reading the Sci-fic DragonLance series more than 10 years back. Anyway, the flow is smooth and style used was a relaxed and easy for the reading.

Th author tells a true story about a man whom he met at a baseball field one day. He was a baseball player in the major league but has been down in between jobs for most of the recent years. The man is Charley "Chick" Benetto and has split with his wife and his daughter did not want him in her life and did not invite him to her wedding. He was devastated and wanted to kill himself.

While driving back to his hometown, he crashed and lying in the grasses, he found himself in his hometown with his mother. He was shocked as he buried his mother several years ago. He followed his mother to 3 places where his mother beautified 3 elderly women. It was at the end where Charley realised that this is not real and his ghost mother was trying to help him to get back to his life.

There are many pages where the author writes about incidents in Charley's life when his mother stood up for him or he did not stood up for his mother. Most of the stories were very touching.

In the end, Charley survived the crash and made his life better. He died 5 years later.

There are many lessons to be learnt especially regarding relationships in this book. It talks about parents love, siblings relationships, teenage love, marriage and the love of a sport.