His latest work.
For One More Day
Alboms tribute to family and particularly motherhood is his second
novel and the first to feature a female protagonist. It explores
questions of regret, divorce, and how we would spend one special
day with the ghost of someone we loved.
Pauline Posey Benetto raises her son bravely as a divorced woman
in the 1960s. The boy, Charley, never really appreciates her
sacrifices, spending much of his life chasing the elusive love of
his father, who left when Charley was 11. The book begins on the
night when Charley, now a middle-aged alcoholic whose family and
work life have disintegrated, decides to take his own life. He
makes a midnight ride to his small hometown, staggers into his old
house, which he believes to be abandoned, only to make a startling
discovery: his mother, who died eight years earlier, is still
living there, as if she never left.
The two of them then embark on the one more day that so many wish
they had with a lost loved one a day to ask question, seek
forgiveness, and reexamine the life you thought you had. The book
was chosen from hundreds of candidates to be the first ever
featured by Starbucks in its stores nationwide.
