The release date for the English version of 'Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family' by
Mitch Albom is Nov 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
With this poignant narrative of love and grief, Mitch Albom has once again shown his talent. You find yourself falling hard for Chika. Undoubtedly a page-turner that will go down in history. --Mary Karr, the writer of The Art of Memoir and The Liars' Club
This is Mitch Albom's most personal narrative, an intimate and heartbreaking memoir about what it means to be a family and the little Haitian orphan whose brief existence would forever transform his heart, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie.
Three days before to the catastrophic 2010 earthquake that completely destroyed Haiti, Chika Jeune was born. Chika was sent to Albom's Have Faith Haiti Orphanage in Port Au Prince when her mother passed away while giving birth to her younger brother. Chika was raised in a harshly impoverished environment throughout her early years. Mitch and his wife, Janine, have become family to the forty-plus youngsters who reside, play, and attend the orphanage since they are childless. When Chika shows there, things are noticed right away. Even at three years old, she exudes confidence and bravery, bringing joy to both the instructors and other children. But when Chika is five years old, a doctor there abruptly diagnoses her with a condition for which "no one in Haiti can help you." In the hopes that American healthcare would enable Chika to return to her own country soon, Mitch and Janine bring her to Detroit. Rather, Chika becomes an indispensable member of their family and their life as they set out on a two-year global search for a cure. Mitch discovers the delights of raising a kid via Chika's inexhaustible optimism and humour, and he also learns that a partnership based on love can withstand any setbacks. Recounted retrospectively and via insightful interviews with Chika, this is Albom at his most sensitive and tragic. Finding Chika is a heartbreakingly beautiful depiction of what it means to be a family, no matter how it is established. It celebrates a child, her adopted guardians, and the amazing love they forged.