{"product_id":"finding-chika-book-mitch-albom-9780062952394","title":"Finding Chika","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of\u003cbr\u003e love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no\u003cbr\u003e doubt become a classic.\" --Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club and The Art of\u003cbr\u003e Memoir\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom\u003cbr\u003e the #1 New York Times bestselling author\u003cbr\u003e of Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch\u003cbr\u003e Albom's most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what\u003cbr\u003e it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would\u003cbr\u003e forever change his heart. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated\u003cbr\u003e Haiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and\u003cbr\u003e when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The\u003cbr\u003e Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go\u003cbr\u003e to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine.\u003cbr\u003e Chika's arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a\u003cbr\u003e three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five,\u003cbr\u003e Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, \"No one in\u003cbr\u003e Haiti can help you with.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can\u003cbr\u003e soon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of\u003cbr\u003e their household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year,\u003cbr\u003e around-the-world journey to find a cure. As Chika's boundless optimism and\u003cbr\u003e humor teach Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learns that a relationship\u003cbr\u003e built on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself,\u003cbr\u003e this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding Chika is a\u003cbr\u003e celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they\u003cbr\u003e formed--a devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family,\u003cbr\u003e regardless of how it is made.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49548710543633,"sku":"GOR010668919","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49609322823953,"sku":"CIN0062952390G","price":3.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49745380278545,"sku":"CIN0062952390A","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49953046135057,"sku":"CIN0062952390VG","price":4.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51819835031825,"sku":"GOR012059658","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062952390.jpg?v=1751069192","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/finding-chika-book-mitch-albom-9780062952394","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}