Finding chika

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Sinopse

International number one bestseller Mitch Albom's first work of non-fiction in ten years - his most personal story to date.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.

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Autor: Mitch Albom

Autor

MITCH ALBOM

Mitch Albom é autor dos livros A última grande lição, Por mais um dia e As cordas mágicas, entre outros. Suas obras já foram traduzidas para 42 idiomas e venderam mais de 600 mil exemplares no Brasil e mais de 35 milhões no mundo. Um dos jornalistas esportivos mais premiados dos Estados Unidos, trabalha como colunista de jornal e apresentador de rádio e de televisão. É também roteirista e músico. Fundou oito instituições de caridade em Detroit e atua em um orfanato em Port-au-Prince, no Haiti.