01857cam a2200337 i 4500 26915 26915 1088521633 OCoLC 20191119115749.0 190301s2019 nyua 000 0beng d 9780062952394 (OCoLC)1088521633 AJM HV1061 .A43 2019 362.7/780097294 B 23 Albom, Mitch, 1958- author. 3659 Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family / Mitch Albom. First edition. New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] 243 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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 author Mitch Albom operates in Port Au Prince. 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." Albom and his wife, Janine, bring Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American medical care will soon grant her a healthy return to her homeland. Instead, Chika becomes a permanent part of the Alboms' lives, as they embark on a two-year, around-the-world journey to find a cure. Jeune, Chika. 3660 Albom, Mitch. 3661 Orphans Haiti Biography. 3662 Families. 3663 .b161171862 ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ B 2019-11-19 24.99 5 B CHIK 49287 2021-04-27 2021-04-21 2019-11-19 BOOK