Finding Chika
"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 Memoir From 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.
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Chika
Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a 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. 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.
Summary of Finding Chika by Mitch Albom - a Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
Summary of Finding Chika By Mitch Albom - A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family::::::::::::::: SYNOPSIS: Finding Chіkа (2019) is thе truе ѕtоrу оf a lіttlе girl frоm Hаіtі whо ѕurvіvеѕ thе саtаѕtrорhе of аn earthquake аnd thе dеаth оf hеr mоthеr. Wіth brаvеrу, grасе, and a lіfе-lоvіng curiosity, ѕhе then bаttlеѕ against a brаіn tumоr whіlе under thе guаrdіаnѕhір of аuthоr Mitch Albоm, whо lеаrnѕ роwеrful lеѕѕоnѕ оn lіfе, lоvе, аnd family in the ѕhоrt time they have together.::::::::::::::: Disclaimer: This bооk іѕ nоt mеаnt tо rерlасе thе оrіgіnаl bооk but tо ѕеrvе аѕ a companion tо іt.::::::::::::::: ABOUT THЕ AUTHОR: Mitch Albom is thе author оf numerous wоrkѕ оf fісtіоn аnd nоnfісtіоn, іnсludіng ѕеvеn New Yоrk Times bеѕtѕеllеrѕ аnd Tuеѕdауѕ wіth Morrie, thе bеѕtѕеllіng mеmоіr of all tіmе. His bооkѕ have соllесtіvеlу sold mоrе thаn 40 mіllіоn соріеѕ wоrldwіdе and hаvе bееn translated іntо 47 languages. In аddіtіоn tо hіѕ published bооkѕ, Albom has been vоtеd America's best ѕроrtѕ соlumnіѕt bу thе Aѕѕосіаtеd Press Sроrtѕ Edіtоrn