Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (original 1997; edition 2002)

by Mitch Albom

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Title	Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Author	Mitch Albom
Tags	memoirs, life lessons, life, death
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Review	As I prepared for a last minute trip to San Diego three weeks ago, I considered which one unread book to add to the handful I'd been lugging around with me. I'd be going to visit my grandmother, possibly for the last time. She’s dying. Tuesdays with Morrie seemed a fitting choice. Now reflecting on the book, I cannot separate my experience of the book from that of visiting my grandmother. Mitch’s transition over 13 weeks from a man made uncomfortable by the sights, smells, and accessories that accompany the failings of health to a man both compelled and honored to participate in the assisted care of dying loved one parallels my own transition in the two and a half days with my grandmother. Morrie’s lessons, as he intended them, had less relevance to the impending loss of my grandmother than to the light that loss cast on existing, absent, and newly forming relationships. Each poignant connection, not always joyful or uplifting, placed a mirror before me revealing aspirations, judgements, compassions, failings, joys, and deeply meaningful expressions of [my] human dimensionality.
Other authors 1
Publication date	2002
Publication	Broadway (2002), Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN	076790592X / 9780767905923
Number of copies	1
Dimensions	7.2 x 4.9 x 0.7 inches


LC Classification 1	LD571.B418S383
Dewey	378.12092


Subjects	Albom, Mitch, 1958- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis › Patients › United States › Biography Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis › United States › Biography Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis › United States › Patients › Biography Attitude to Death Brandeis University › Faculty › Biography Death › Case studies Death › Psychological aspects › Case studies Intergenerational Relations Intergenerational relations › United States Intergenerational relations › United States › Case studies Patients › United States › Biography Schwartz, Morrie › Philosophy Schwartz, Morris S Teacher-student relationships › United States Teacher-student relationships › United States › Case studies


Primary language eng	English
Secondary language	(blank)
Original language


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Date started	2008-04-26
Date finished	2008-05-06
Summary 0	Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom (2002)


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