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Finding Chika : A heart-breaking and hopeful story about family, adversity and unconditional love

Author: Mitch Albom
SKU: 9780751571936

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Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to the Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Mitch and his wife, Janine operate. Chika’s arrival made a quick impression.

Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delighted the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika was suddenly diagnosed with a terminal disease that no doctor in Haiti could help with. Mitch and Janine took Chika to America, hoping that treatment there would enable her to go back home.

Instead, Chika became a permanent part of their lives, as they embarked on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure. As Chika’s boundless optimism and humour taught Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learnt that a relationship built on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost. This is Mitch Albom at his most poignant, powerful and personal.

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.

  • Classifications:Haiti, c 2010 to c 2020, Memoirs, Poverty & unemployment, Natural disasters
  • Readership:General (US: Trade)
  • Format:Hardback 256 pages

ISBN : 9780751571936

Published : 5 Nov 2019

Author : Mitch Albom

Language : English

Main Material : Hardback

Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group

Size : 218 x 144 (mm)

Weight : 385g

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