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Item specifics
- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780062952394
- Book Title
- Finding Chika : a Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
- Item Length
- 7.2in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Social Science
- Topic
- Death & Dying, Inspirational, Children's Studies, Inspiration & Personal Growth, Medical, Adoption & Fostering, Earthquakes & Volcanoes
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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"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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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062952390
ISBN-13
9780062952394
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038252359
Product Key Features
Book Title
Finding Chika : a Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Death & Dying, Inspirational, Children's Studies, Inspiration & Personal Growth, Medical, Adoption & Fostering, Earthquakes & Volcanoes
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Nature, Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Social Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv1061.A43 2019
Reviews
Albom conveys the heartbreak of watching her suffer (Chika endured surgeries, and lost teeth and hair), while capturing Chika's sweet spirit and youthful resilience. He speaks candidly about being too career-focused and putting off having kids until it was too late, and shares how Chika allowed him and his wife to experience the glory of parenthood decades into their marriage. Albom addresses Chika directly: "You never have to worry about us forgetting you... we'd lose every memory we ever had before we would let go of yours." Both painfully sad and beautiful, this is an absolute tearjerker. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) The takeaway from this simple, moving memoir is that love has no boundaries and should not be hindered by ethnicity, religion, education, or money.A highly expressive, tender story about how "families are like pieces of art, they can be made from many materials. -- Kirkus Reviews "This is a story of such heart-wrenching beauty that you think it would take a Mitch Albom to compose it. But Albom is more than the author, for it was his own heart that was broken open by the surprising arrival and excruciating departure of a dazzling little Haitian girl named Chika--who became, in every way that matters, his and his wife's precious daughter -- and it is his own life he seeks to patch back together in the telling." -- Melissa Fay Greene, two-time Nation a l Book Award finalist and author of There Is No Me Without You "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 Albom's memoir is a lens into his grief but also a celebration of Chika's spirit and lessons gleaned from their time together as a family. The heartbreaking but uplifting story is a testament to the bravery and resilience of children and the power of love. -- Library Journal, The takeaway from this simple, moving memoir is that love has no boundaries and should not be hindered by ethnicity, religion, education, or money.A highly expressive, tender story about how "families are like pieces of art, they can be made from many materials.
Lccn
2020-277592
Dewey Decimal
362.7/780097294 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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