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Author Albom, Mitch, 1958-, author

Title Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family / Mitch Albom
Published [S.l.] : SPHERE, 2019
London : Sphere, 2019

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Description 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary International number one bestseller Mitch Albom's first work of non-fiction in ten years - his most personal story to date.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
Subject Albom, Mitch
Jeune, Chika, 2010-2017
Albom, Mitch, 1958- -- Family
Jeune, Chika
Albom, Mitch, 1958-
Brain -- Tumors -- Patients -- Haiti -- Biography
Terminally ill children -- Haiti -- Biography
Sick children -- Care -- Biography
Adopted children -- Family relationships
Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010
Adoptive parents -- United States -- Biography
Loss (Psychology)
Families
Orphans -- Haiti -- Biography
Genre/Form Biography.
Biographies.
Reading nook.
LC no. be2019041864
ISBN 9780751571936
0751571938