Physical
AvailableLanguage | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0751571938 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0751571936 |
No of pages | 224 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Sphere |
Published Date | 21 Dec 2019 |
Mitch Albom is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, which have collectively sold more than forty million copies in forty-seven languages worldwide.
He has written seven number-one New York Times bestsellers - including "Tuesdays with Morrie," the bestselling memoir of all time, which topped the list for four straight years –
award-winning TV films, stage plays, screenplays, a nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical.
He founded and oversees SAY Detroit, a consortium of nine different charitable operations in his hometown, including a nonprofit dessert shop and food product line to fund programs for Detroit's neediest citizens.
He also operates an orphanage in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. He lives with his wife, Janine, in Michigan. Learn more at www.mitchalbom.com and www.saydetroit.org.
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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.