Mitch Albon. for one more day. Hyperion, 2006.
Chick Benetto's life started going downhill when his father abandoned the family. Then it was worse, when Chick was injured out of his career as a professional baseball player. Unresolved family issues, career problems, alcohol abuse make everything worse. In an effort to return to where everything started, Chick is driving drunk when he is in a collision with a truck. In the interim before we know what happens, he spends one more day with his late mother. Some of the issues and some of the mysteries are resolved, before the end.
Very engaging. A clear story of how the problems of one generation continue to haunt the next. And of how children so often get things wrong.
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