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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

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 Mitch Albom operates in Port Au Prince. 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.

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

  • Publication Date: May 18, 2021
  • Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
  • ISBN-10: 0062952404
  • ISBN-13: 9780062952400