Mitch 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 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. Chika 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. 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.? 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. 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.
