{"product_id":"finding-chika-mitch-albom-9781094025247","title":"Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBestselling 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChika 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMitch 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. \u003ci\u003eFinding Chika\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mitch Albom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1094025240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781094025247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.60h x 5.80w x 0.60d","brand":"Mitch Albom","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":43947725684991,"sku":"9781094025247","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_77fbd2f9-85c5-424d-9987-049039437df3.jpg?v=1681520431","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/finding-chika-mitch-albom-9781094025247","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}