Finding Chika: This is a Story About Love
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- "Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family" arrives November 5, 2019. Learn more at www.findingchik...
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Bestselling 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.
Chika 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.
With 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.”
Mitch 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.
Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable. Finding 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.
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Mitch has been a wonderful writer!! It’s apparent too that he was a wonderful father to Chika!! ❤❤🙏😢
Chika was truly a gift from God. She will never be forgotten, ever.
‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ has always been one of my favourite books which I’d go back to whenever I needed some words of comfort. ‘Finding Chika’ is now another one on the list. I’ve never cried so much reading a book before. Thank you, Mitch and Janine for taking on that role to fill Chika’s little life with love and the experience of having a family. Thank you, Mitch, for writing this. I know it must not have been easy revisiting those memories. But stories are always begging to be told and heard because the world needs them for courage and strength to move forward. It’s the reason we write. ❤
Sir, i never cried over a book so much before this. Thank you for writing this book. Been reading your books over the years but this one shook me to the core. much respect for you. Pls dont ever stop writing..
Never cried so much for someone whom is a total stranger and I began to ask myself why is the world cruel even to a little girl whom undeserving of this cruelty. Then I remembered the meaning of your name which fortunately is a Nigerian name from the igbo tribe meaning God is Greatest. May God accept your soul little one..
I have just read the book and I have loved every bit of Chika. I am a doctor and it struck me that many times we look at patients as one of many - as a diagnosis. You looked at her as one of one. She was yours. That was a beautiful tribute and may you be blessed richly. Your book is being discussed in our book club in Kenya. That is how far Chika's fight and love has spread
Second time reading her story, she was a visiting angel. Just lost my 18 year old grandson to a drive by shooting. He to was a visiting angel. Chika will always be with us in your vibrant writing. Thank you so much.
The stranger in the life boat is wonderful writing of Mitch Albom
she may have a short life, but her life was full, beautiful and precious because she had you, janine, her loving friends in Haiti and a lot of other people. ❤
I sobbed through this whole book.
Mitch Albom is such a great human being
LOVED THE BOOK, OF COARSE BROUGHT TEARS AT THE END, I'M SORRY I MISSED MEETING CHICKA WHEN THEY WERE HERE LAGUNA, AND VERY SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS!!!
My ❤ heart has been touched by her story. I am literally in tears.
Beautiful and tear jerking story, I just read the book and she's one amazing and extraordinary child. She has blessed the world with her love and strong soul. You and Ms. Janine are lucky to have known and loved her.
I loved this book. What a gift Chika has been to this world. Can she ever know what a gift she has been? Does God let us know those things after we are in Heaven?
Mitch Albom
I am very excited waiting for the release of your new book. I have been a fan of your work ever since the day I read "Tuesdays With Morrie." Tuesdays changed my life and I have given the book to many many people. Although your books following Tuesadys are fiction you have a way of making each character seem as they really exist. I have read your books over and over.
Thank you for your stories and for sharing a very personal message in your new book. I look forward to the release of "Finding Chika"
Thomas
How beautiful...
I loved your book "Tuesdays with Morrie". I know you have heard this a million times but your book gave me a better perspective on life.
I'm not a religious man but I really really really really really hope little miss Chika gets a chance to goof around and play on the top side of these clouds...the chance she didn't have here. 🙏
God bless you and bless Chika .Very sad that she passed.
RIP Chika.
RIP Chika
Hi Mitch! Big fan bud. I hope you check your messages on here. Chikas story really triggered some next level introspection. I'm going to paste a comment I wrote on the CBS story about Chika. I hope you will read it and share any relevant thoughts or insights you may have as it is quite the layered topic and I admire your viewpoint. Fascinating is an inadequate word to describe imagining the in 2020 if there was never slavery. Anyway, if you read this please share your feelings on the matter. Blessings✌️
Chikas story is so very important. And for many reasons. That feeling you have right now, a tug on your heart strings, that is your conscience - weather you realize it or not - it is guilt you feel. Not pity. Not empathy. Guilt. I'm asking you to take five minutes and reflect on all the events throughout recent history that placed this little angel right here on your cell phone screen. Meditate for a few moments on how hatred, greed, and slavery all conspired to make this story. How she ended up in an orphanage in a demolished country with one MRI machine and less hope than MRI machines. And think how America, which was built by her shackled ancestors, can spend 25 billion dollars on a wall to keep desperate souls away, as we forsake our obligation to mankind and the millions of other children just like her. Chika. We owe restitution. The wealth we have accumulated and the advantages we enjoy were built on her great great great grandmother's scar covered back. The homelands, the diaspora, the fears and the misfortunes of a whole race of our fellow human beings has all been shaped by OUR GREED. She would NEVER have suffered such a hopeless plight if it weren't for what OUR ANCESTORS did a few hundred short years ago. If not for us Chika would be 8 now. Running around Nairobi with her playmates before heading home to get ready for school tomorrow. Africa would not be what it is now. It would be centuries ahead. If we hadn't stolen human beings to come till OUR soil and pick OUR sugar cane and OUR cotton, they would have been growing their own crops and reaping the benefits. Those crops would have financed their transition into the industrial age and beyond. Those well financed transitions through modernization that we have enjoyed, that was theirs. We stole it. We robbed a whole continents future. We stole the labor and the money that labor generated and we kept it for ourselves. To finance OUR growth. And now we are rich and they are poor. And their families are spread all over the world now. Wherever we decided to put them. Many of them are still sitting in countries we've abandoned because their labor is no longer free and therefore the profit margins are insufficient. Where they fight for survival in inhospitable lands full of abandoned sugar plantations, with abandoned economies, and millions of abandoned people.
THAT IS WHY CHIKA DIED RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU JUST NOW. We owe karma a very large debt. We owe humanity apologies and restitution. We should be pleading for the worlds forgiveness and working to right our wrongs. And I REALLY hope we all think about Chika come Christmas 2019, when your kid is bitching about getting the iPhone 11 that only has two cameras
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One, as beautiful as you... 🎈
Wow This is a beautiful story !💖😂💖
Great man!!!
thương Chika
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Why was this precious child calling you "Mr. Mitch" if you were a surrogate dad?
It doesn't matter. Just pray for her soul.💔
Because back in Haiti everyone of his 40 or so kids call him Mr mitch and chika was there...
Maybe focus instead on how hatred, institutional racism, and slavery shoved this little angel into an orphanage in a demolished country with one MRI machine and less hope than MRI machines... And think how America, which was built by her shackled ancestors, can spend 25 billion dollars on a wall to keep people away, as we forsake our obligation to humanity and this child. Chika. We owe restitution. The wealth we have accumulated and the advantages we enjoy were built on her great great great grandmother's scarred back. And the makeup and misfortunes of a whole race of human beings has been shaped by our greed. She would never have been in that situation if it weren't for our actions 250 years ago. We owe karma a very large debt. Think about her around Christmas, when your kid is bitching about getting the wrong iPhone 11.
the book fucked me up. Finding this video made it worse. fml. best book ever.