Tuesdays with Morrie

When Mitch Albom stumbles across a television interview with his old college sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, he realizes how far he has drifted from the person he once meant to become. Sixteen years after promising to keep in touch, Albom—now a driven, workaholic sports journalist—reconnects with Morrie, who is in the final months of his life after a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

What begins as a single visit becomes a standing appointment: every Tuesday, Albom flies across the country to sit with his dying mentor for one last course, this one on the meaning of life. Over fourteen Tuesdays, Morrie shares hard-won wisdom on the subjects that matter most—love, work, family, aging, forgiveness, regret, and how to make peace with death—while his body steadily fails him.

Published in 1997, Tuesdays with Morrie is a slim, deeply personal memoir that became one of the best-selling books of its kind. Its power lies less in plot than in the plain, unsentimental honesty of Morrie's lessons and the quiet transformation they work on the student who came to say goodbye.