{"product_id":"finding-chika","title":"Finding Chika","description":"\"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of\u003cbr\u003elove and loss. You can’t help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no\u003cbr\u003edoubt become a classic.” --Mary Karr, author of The Liars’ Club and The Art of\u003cbr\u003eMemoir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom\u003cbr\u003ethe #1 New York Times bestselling author\u003cbr\u003eof Tuesdays With Morrie comes Mitch\u003cbr\u003eAlbom’s most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what\u003cbr\u003eit means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would\u003cbr\u003eforever change his heart. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated\u003cbr\u003eHaiti in 2010. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and\u003cbr\u003ewhen her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The\u003cbr\u003eHave Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith no children of their own, the forty-plus children who live, play, and go\u003cbr\u003eto school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine.\u003cbr\u003eChika’s arrival makes a quick impression. Brave and self-assured, even as a\u003cbr\u003ethree-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five,\u003cbr\u003eChika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, “No one in\u003cbr\u003eHaiti can help you with.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can\u003cbr\u003esoon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of\u003cbr\u003etheir household, and their lives, as they embark on a two-year,\u003cbr\u003earound-the-world journey to find a cure. As Chika’s boundless optimism and\u003cbr\u003ehumor teach Mitch the joys of caring for a child, he learns that a relationship\u003cbr\u003ebuilt on love, no matter what blows it takes, can never be lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself,\u003cbr\u003ethis is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding Chika is a\u003cbr\u003ecelebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they\u003cbr\u003eformed—a devastatingly beautiful portrait of what it means to be a family,\u003cbr\u003eregardless of how it is made.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Harper collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46501588860982,"sku":"9780062952394","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"EGP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/diamond-pub.com\/ar\/products\/finding-chika","provider":"Diamond Pub","version":"1.0","type":"link"}