He prepares to kill himself, and then sets off on one last journey to the small California town where he grew up. As Chick describes it, the photograph represents the latest in a long string of personal failings and disappointments, and was also the final straw, leading him to decide to end his life. The story, the narrator writes, is to be told in Chick's own voice and from Chick's own perspective and is, in spite of some apparent impossibilities, to be believed by the reader.Ĭhick's narrative begins with a description of his attempted suicide, triggered by the arrival in the mail of a photograph of his daughter's wedding - a wedding to which he wasn't invited. A near-death experience in which he encounters the spirit of his dead mother is the catalyst of a journey into his troubled past, the narrative of that journey exploring the theme of relationships between parents and children, as well as loyalty and human fallibility.įor one more day begins with an introduction, in which an anonymous narrator describes the story about to be told as that of Chick Benetto, an elderly man encountered seemingly by chance at a small town baseball field. This novel, at times poetic and at times sentimental, tells the story of a day in the death of Chick Benetto, ex-pro baseball player, ex-husband, and ex-father.
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