FOR ONE MORE DAY/Mitch Albom In his latest novel, For One More Day, Mitch Albom poses the questions: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved? Who would you choose? In this novel, readers meet Charley Chick Benetto, a former pro baseball player whose last game was played years ago, who is now stuck in a job he dislikes, is estranged from his ex-wife and their daughter; he drinks too much and sees little left to live for. Charley tries killing himself and, in the process, is granted one more day with his deceased mother. Through a series of chapters and interludes, readers explore Charley and his mother’s relationship from his childhood to his adulthood as well as the events of this one day which they have been granted. Through a series of interludes, we learn of a number of occasions when Charley’s mother stood up for him (each titled Times My Mother Stood Up For Me) and the times Charley knew that he had failed his mother (each titled Times I Did Not Stand Up For My Mother). These interludes are a mix of touching, sweet and brutally sad events. Often not so much for what Charley has done to his mother and the things his mother has done for him, but because they remind readers of things someone has done for them or times when we may have failed a person who is now gone. Though the passing of loved ones is a recurring theme in Mitch Albom’s books (Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven) and like those books this new one is a series of short chapters in a quick-to-read volume the overriding theme of these books seems to be making the most of our time with our loved ones, even if it is just For One More Day.