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Finding Chika

A heart-breaking and hopeful story about family, adversity and unconditional love

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Finding Chika

By: Mitch Albom
Narrated by: Mitch Albom
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About this listen

 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.©2019 ASOP, Inc. Grief & Loss Infants & Toddlers Parenting & Families Personal Development Relationships Thought-Provoking Caribbean

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Critic reviews

Uplifting . . . Although Finding Chika makes for heart-wrenching reading, it is also a tale of resilience and decency - and the memorable cheerfulness of a dying child
Heartrending . . . A touching rumination on the magic of children, the extraordinary lengths parents will go for them and the unlikely family that came together across continents
Mitch Albom breaks hearts with his story
A heartbreaking story of love, grief and what it really means to be a family
A beautiful, heart-breaking, heart-warming read
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I loved Mitch Albom’s previous book and went into this without knowing anything about it. I was hooked in minutes and have laughed and cried throughout this journey. I found myself reflecting on my own life, marvelling at human kindness even in the face of such tragedy. It reminds you of all you have to be grateful for.

An incredible, beautiful and heartbreaking story

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Another breathtaking book by Albom. Emotional and yet soo truly inspirational. Chicka you made the world a better place just by being in it. The Albom family touched my soul.

Touching and as beautiful as Chicka

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It’s rare that as a parent you get to see into the lives of other families, to witness those sweet moments between parents and their children; this book gives us that insight in the most challenging of circumstances.

This book will make you cry, make you gasp and open up your heart to the love that surrounds us. If you ever need reminding of the goodness of people and the beauty that lies all around us then this book will help you gain access into something truly special.

Thank you Mitch and Janine, may I aspire to live with as much love as the two of you do.

Heartbreaking lovingly inspiring

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Brilliant and so emotional, a can't put down book, amazing, inspiring, and uplifting in so many ways. ❤

inspirational

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Having Read Tuesdays With Morrie several times over I was really looking forward to this book and as usual Mitch Albom didn’t disappoint. I was gripped from the very first line and found it difficult to stop listening to this truly remarkable story.

Gripping very sad story

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