One Day - Gene Weingarten

Non-Fiction

Rating: 7.5/10

If you were to collect stories from a single day from the past, would you find anecdotes that depict all the components of the human experience?  After the author randomly chooses the date from which this book evolves, we realize that yes, this is in fact conceivable.

It becomes evident quite quickly that the deeper you dig into something, the more intertwined you will find it to be. We are more connected to each other and any single point in time than we conscious of. 

These stories range from audacious, to banal, to brutal, to fearless, to hopeful, all the way to implausible.  I was especially charmed by the authors weaving of each story to other pivotal moments in the storyteller’s life.

Just a taste…

> Just after midnight a man lies split open on the operating table being prepped for a transplant.  He was obviously shot in the head.  Was he the murdered?  Or the murderer?

> How do you live an entire life bearing the weight of the revulsion reflected in the faces of those who look at you.

> Coming to the realization that you can’t remember what the man you’ve become engaged to and asked to move in looks like.

Footnote: Something to ponder after reading this book; some connections are made in our lives and some are missed.  Either forms the life we live.