Mitch Albom revisits mortality in For One More Day

This time, Albom creates a pathetic sports loser, Chick Bennetto, who was once (very briefly) in the World Series and is now more commonly found in the nearest dive bar. After losing career, wife and daughter, he decides to kill himself, and as he teeters between this life and the next, he finds himself on a spirtual visit with his mother. I hope Albom has exorcised all his ghosts now, and will return to some kind of meatier writing, because I personally have had enough of the morality plays.

This book is the classic illustration of a very well orchestrated marketing campaign that drove a sappy short novel to the top of the bestseller charts. Ugh!