For One More Day

Novel

Audiobook

First Person

Fiction

197

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As a child, Charley Benetto is told by his father, ”You can be a mamas boy or you can be a daddys boy, but you cant be both.” so he chooses his father, and he worships him - right up to the day the man disappears. An eleven-year-old Charley must then turn to his mother, who bravely raises him on her own, despite Charleys embarrassment and yearlings for a complete family. 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 had ever happened. What follows is the one ”ordinary” day so many of is yearn for, a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain family secrets, and to seek forgiveness. Somewhere between this life and the next, Charley learns the 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.

Hyperion (October 13, 2015)

9780751537505

United States

100 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DY, England

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~$2.94

2026-01-10

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