For One More Day characters

Also known as Chick

Appears from the start

A former professional baseball player whose drinking and accumulated regrets have cost him his career and family life. After learning that his only daughter married without inviting him, he returns to his hometown intending to die. There he encounters his mother, who has been dead for years, apparently alive in their old house.

Also known as Posey

First appears in chapter 2

Chick's mother, a warm, determined woman who supported her children after her marriage ended and built a working life as a nurse and hairdresser. Years after her death, she receives the despairing Chick at his childhood home as though an ordinary day together were still possible.

Also known as Len

First appears in chapter 3

Chick's father, a demanding man who treats baseball as the measure of his son's worth. When the marriage breaks apart, he pressures Chick to choose between his parents, leaving the boy eager for paternal approval and resentful of the mother who remains.

First appears in chapter 5

Chick's younger sister, who grows up beside him during their parents' troubled marriage and separation. Her memories offer a family perspective not governed by Chick's fixation on winning their father's approval.

First appears in chapter 6

Chick's estranged wife. She endured the years in which his disappointment, absences, and drinking displaced his responsibilities at home, and their failed marriage forms part of the damage he is forced to acknowledge.

First appears in chapter 6

Chick and Catherine's daughter. Her decision to hold her wedding without Chick exposes the depth of their estrangement and becomes the immediate shock that sends him toward his suicide attempt.