Faced with a confusing choice of being either “mommy’s boy” or “daddy’s boy” at a tender age, Chick picked the latter. Albom then moved the story to Chick’s childhood and adolescence and what transpired in between. Caught in between life and death, Chick was transported back to the old house where he grew up and to his utter disbelief, he found his mother cooking breakfast!Ĭhick was granted one more day with his mother. When his only daughter shunned him from her wedding, Chick attempted to commit suicide. Imprisoned in dead-end job as a salesman and bitter divorce, Chick turned to alcohol for solace. He started off as a promising baseball star who could no longer hit a home run.
The protagonist, Charley “Chick” Benetto, is an alcoholic. The book asked you one simple question – if you were given one more day with your dead parent, would you be brave enough to accept it and make amends along the way? As to how he managed to write these 3 bestsellers – not relating to sports whatsoever – is beyond me. Albom kicked off his writing career as a sport’s columnist. Of course, “ the 5 people you meet in heaven” is fictional. I think “ Tuesday with Morrie” is his true story. I can never tell the correct genre of Mitch Albom’s books. It probably falls under the genre of psychology too. For one more day is an autobiography rather than fiction.
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