Name: Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
Price: 20.24 EUR
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Author: Albom, Mitch
ISBN: 9780062952400

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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mitch Albom

Publisher

Harper Paperbacks

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.5 x 1.4 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9780062952400

Synopsis "Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family "

"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic." --Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of MemoirFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch Albom's most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. Chika's arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, "No one in Haiti can help you with." Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can soon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of their household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure. As Chika's boundless optimism and humor teach Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learns that a relationship built on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost. Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding Chika is a celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they formed--a devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family, regardless of how it is made.

Mitch Albom

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Mitch Albom has a degree in Sociology and holds a master's in Journalism and Business Administration from Columbia University. He has worked as a sports journalist and radio broadcaster. He has also written Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Have a Little Faith, and The Time Keeper.

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