Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by Mitch Albom: Conversation Starters

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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by Mitch Albom: Conversation Starters

'Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family' is author Mitch Albom's memoir that shows the incredible resilience found among children and the power of love.
The author details the immense love he had for a little girl named Chika, who was resident to the orphanage that Albom had operated in Haiti's capital, Port Au Prince. Chika was the daughter he never knew he had needed after Albom and his wife had failed to have children of their own. The couple is shattered to learn that Chika suffered from terminal cancer, and they move heaven and earth to find a cure for her ailment. However, what they found was a family and a daughter who loved them like her own parents.

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EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, 
and the characters and its world still live on. 
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
bring us beneath the surface of the page
and invite us into the world that lives on. 
 
These questions can be used to create hours of conversation:
 
• Foster a deeper understanding of the book
• Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups
• Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately
• Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before
 
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Daily Books
• Release date: Jan 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9788835872924

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Introducing Finding Chika

Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family' is a memoir written by acclaimed writer Mitch Albom about his relationship with a five-year-old girl named Chika Jeune. Chika was an orphan girl who was born in Haiti three days before an earthquake struck the small Caribbean country in North America. The earthquake that occurred in 2010 was responsible for large scale devastation of the already struggling country. Haiti is the poorest country in the 'western hemisphere, and the earthquake of 7.0 magnitude was the most destructive natural calamity ever to set foot in the poverty-ridden country. She somehow survived it, even though her family's cinderblock house collapsed around her.

With the need to do something for the Haitians, the author Mitch Albom took over an orphanage situated in Port Au Prince, the capital city of Haiti. The orphanage provides care and support to over 40+ orphans. When Chika was two years old, her mother died giving birth to a baby brother. Not much later, Chika was brought to the orphanage. This is where the author met Chika and was instantly attracted to the little girl. Like all other orphans, someone had left Chika at the orphanage door and never returned to take her back. Chika grew among the other children and caretakers and instantly bonded with everyone due to her curious and loving nature.

The author and his wife were childless themselves, and they soon found that they could love other children even if they didn't have one of their own. All was going well until one day, Chika was diagnosed with a terminal disease. Doctors all over Haiti were consulted to no avail as the disease was beyond the grasp of local doctors. The author then decided to take Chika