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Tuesdays with Morrie
A dying professor, a workaholic ex-student, and fourteen Tuesdays. Call the person you keep meaning to call. 📞
Who it's for
The book is built as a 'last class': fourteen Tuesday visits in which Mitch, a busy sportswriter who hadn't contacted his old professor in about sixteen years, sits with Morrie Schwartz as ALS takes his body.
Feelings it meets
What it is
In this 1997 memoir, sportswriter Mitch Albom reconnects with his former Brandeis University sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, after seeing him interviewed on television about living with ALS. The book recounts fourteen Tuesday visits to Morrie's home, each centred on a life topic such as death, fear, aging, greed, marriage, family and forgiveness.
Where to find it
In print and very widely available; libraries (Libby/Hoopla); audiobook read by Mitch Albom. A 1999 TV film adaptation exists.
Before you start
Heads up: Terminal illness and death from ALS.
Age: Ages 12+
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Chapter FORTY
