小说叙述男主人公在生活中常常遭受挫折，最后女儿的婚礼也不邀请他参加；他心理无法承受，驾车自杀。当他处于生死边缘之际，突然看见去世的母亲来领他回到往日的生活中逗留一天，在这过程中主人公不断想起过去的生活，使他对家庭和人生感悟颇深。一天结束，母亲消失，他重返人间，以积极而豁达的态度度过余生。

'Every family is a ghost story ...' As a child, Charley Benetto was told by his father, 'You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, but you can't be both.' So he chooses his father, only to see him disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence. Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been destroyed by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits rock bottom after discovering he won't be invited to his only daughter's wedding. And he decides to take his own life. Charley makes a midnight ride to his small hometown: his final journey. But as he staggers into his old house, he makes an astonishing discovery. His mother - who died eight years earlier - is there, and welcomes Charley home as if nothing had ever happened. What follows is the one seemingly ordinary day so many of us yearn for: a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets and to seek forgiveness.

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