{"product_id":"finding-chika","title":"Finding Chika","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can’t help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic.” --Mary Karr, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Liars’ Club\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eTuesdays With Morrie\u003c\/em\u003e comes Mitch Albom’s most personal story to date: an intimate and heartwarming memoir about what it means to be a family and the young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. \u003c\/strong\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Albom, Mitch","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Memoir)","offer_id":47168531595488,"sku":"","price":18.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Memoir)","offer_id":48396417466592,"sku":null,"price":12.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6369d71b-b907-438d-b80f-7278916250bf.jpg?v=1742748260","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/finding-chika","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}