Bestselling author 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.
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..
Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable.
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.
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.
Mitch and Janine bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care can soon return her to her homeland.
But at age five, Chika is suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says, No one in Haiti can help you with.
Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers.
Chika\'s arrival makes a quick impression.
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.
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.
Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating Earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. --Mary Karr, author of The Liars\' Club and The Art of Memoir From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie 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.
A page-turner that will no doubt become a classic.
You can\'t help but fall for Chika.
Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss.
Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, this is Albom at his most poignant and vulnerable.
Bestselling author 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
