Tuesdays with Morrie

Morrie Schwartz was a sociology professor at Brandeis who was diagnosed with ALS in his seventies. When his former student Mitch Albom saw him on Nightline, they reconnected, and Albom began visiting every Tuesday until Morrie died. Tuesdays with Morrie is organized by topic: each chapter covers something Morrie wanted to address before he couldn’t—forgiveness, family, fear, how to die. The book is short and uncomplicated. Albom writes in a clean, direct style that gets out of the way of the conversations. What makes it endure is Morrie himself: a man who approached his dying with an openness that most people don’t manage, and who had thought carefully enough about life to have something worth saying about it. This 25th anniversary edition includes a new preface. One of the bestselling memoirs of the past three decades, and readable in an afternoon.