For One More Day
Readers rate it 3.9 (122 on Hardcover)
179 pages · Released 2006 · Hyperion
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A note for parents
For One More Day deals with serious adult themes including suicidal ideation, depression, and alcohol dependency—topics best suited for mature teenagers who can process them thoughtfully. While ultimately redemptive and inspirational, the book's exploration of grief and mental health crises requires emotional readiness. The supernatural encounter with his mother's ghost provides the emotional turning point but doesn't lighten the weight of the subject matter.
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In an inspirational debut novel by the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, Charles "Chick" Benetto, grieving over the death of his mother, uses alcohol as a crutch to deal with his loneliness, isolation, and depression and the disintegration of his life, until an encounter with his mother's ghost brings him new awareness a... In an inspirational debut novel by the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, Charles "Chick" Benetto, grieving over the death of his mother, uses alcohol as a crutch to deal with his loneliness, isolation, and depression and the disintegration of his life, until an encounter with his mother's ghost brings him new awareness and leads him to attempt to put his life back together.
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- Future life
- Fiction
- Suicidal behavior
- Mothers and sons, fiction
- Fiction, psychological
- Madre e hijo
- Mothers and sons
- Death
- Reading materials
- Madres
- Mothers
- Spanish language
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ISBN 9781401303273 · Hyperion