A conversation with Mitch Albom
Schedule
Tue Oct 07 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
2121 Snow Road, Parma, OH 44134 | Parma, OH
🎫 TICKETED EVENT ($30 + FEES) 🎫Join us at our Parma-Snow Branch for a conversation with Mitch Albom, author of "Twice."
Each ticket ($30+fees) includes a seat at the author’s talk, a copy of "Twice," and a donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation.
Get tickets: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/14398696
Albom is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold 42 million copies in 48 languages worldwide. He has written eight No. 1 New York Times bestsellers—including "Tuesdays with Morrie," the bestselling memoir of all time—award-winning television films, stage plays, screenplays, a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical. Through his work at the Detroit Free Press, he was inducted into both the National Sports Media Association and Michigan Sports halls of fame and is the recipient of the 2010 Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement. He founded the nonprofit SAY Detroit, which provides pathways to success for Detroiters in need through major health, housing and education initiatives. He also founded a dessert shop and a gourmet popcorn line to help fund it. Albom operates Have Faith Haiti, a home and school for impoverished children and orphans in Port-au-Prince, which he visits monthly. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan.
In "Twice," when he is 8 years old, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a second chance at everything. He can undo any moment and live it again. The one catch: he must accept the consequences of his second try—for better or worse.
He grows up correcting his mistakes and saving himself from adolescent embarrassments. He even takes foolishly dangerous risks, just to see what it’s like to come close to death, before tapping back to safety.
Eventually, Alfie turns his gift to his love life, studying his crushes and going back to make himself more appealing. In time, he falls deeply in love with Gianna, the woman he believes is the one. He seems to find contentment.
But as the years pass, Alfie’s eye begins to wander. Which is when he learns a lone caveat to his power: once he undoes a love, that person can never fall in love with him again. Knowing if he gives into to temptation, he will risk losing what he has with Gianna, Alfie makes a choice that changes his life forever.
The book begins many years later, after an ailing Alfie is arrested for allegedly cheating and winning millions at a casino roulette wheel. As a curious detective interrogates him, he slowly uncovers Alfie’s incredible story, and its most unlikely conclusion.
This event is presented in partnership with the Mandel JCC.
