Mitch Albom, FINDING CHIKA

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🗓️ 19 November 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Mitch Albom is the author of seven #1 New York Times best sellers including Tuesdays with Morrie, the best-selling memoir of all time! His latest heartbreaking, inspiring book is Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family. This intimate, sentimental memoir is a poignant framing of love, loss, and family. I can't wait for you to hear our conversation about this achingly beautiful book.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to the Webby-nominated podcast.
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0:52.1	with Mitch Album, who is the author of seven number one New York Times bestsellers, including Tuesdays with Mori, the bestselling memoir of all time.
1:01.1	His book collectively have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 47 languages.
1:07.2	His latest memoir is Finding Chica, a little girl, an earthquake, and the Making of a Family.
1:12.0	Mitch has written award-winning TV films, plays, a musical, and has written a syndicated
1:16.4	newspaper column for 30 years. He was voted America's Best Sports columnist by the Associated Press
1:21.8	Sports. He founded Say Say-S-A-Y Detroit in 2006, which oversees nine full-time charities in the Metro Detroit area. In 2010, he began operating the Have Faith Haiti Mission Orphanage. He currently lives with his wife, Janine, who he calls Miss Janine in this book, in Michigan. So welcome to Mitch. Thanks for coming on, Mom's Now Time to Read Books, Mitch, welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Glad to be here.
1:44.8	So, Finding Chica, please tell listeners what this book is about and what inspired you to write it.
1:50.0	Well, that's a big question. So I operate an orphanage in Haiti. I have since the earthquake of 2010. I'm there every month. We have 52 children. Three days before the earthquake
2:02.8	happened, a little girl was born whose name was Chika John. She, on the third day of her life,
2:11.2	was inside a cinder block one-room house with her mother when the earth shook and the house
2:16.6	collapsed around them.
2:17.9	The roof fell off.
2:19.6	Miraculously, she survived.
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