Binding: Paperback
Description: " Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir oflove and loss. You cant help but fall for Chika. A page - turner that will nodoubt become a classic. - - Mary Karr author of The Liars Club and The Art of Memoir Fromthe #1 New York Times bestselling authorof Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch Alboms most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about whatit means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life wouldforever 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 andwhen 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 goto school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife Janine. Chikas arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self - assured even as athree - 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 cansoon return her to her homeland. Instead Chika becomes a permanent part oftheir household and their lives as they embark on a two - year around - the - world journey to find a cure. As Chikas boundless optimism andhumor teach Mitch the joys of caring for a child he learns that a relationshipbuilt 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 acelebration of a girl her adoptive guardians and the incredible bond theyformeda devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family regardless of how it is made.
Title: Finding Chika A Little Girl An Earthquake And The Making Of A Family
Author(s): Albom Mitch
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062952400
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/18/2021