Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family Audiobook (Free)

Best-selling author Mitch Albom comes back to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade within this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever modification his heart. Performed by Mitch Albom with Chika’s voice featured throughout.

Chika Jeune was created three days prior to the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010 2010. She spent her infancy in a surroundings of extreme poverty, and when her mother died having a baby to an infant brother, Chika was about Selecting Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Producing of a Family brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Slot Au Prince.

Without children of their own, the 40-plus children who live, play, and head to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. Chika’s appearance makes a quick impression. Daring and self-assured, even while a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. But at age five, Chika is certainly suddenly diagnosed with something a doctor there says “no one in Haiti might help you with.”

Mitch and Janine provide Chika to Detroit, hopeful that American health care may soon return her to her homeland. Instead, Chika turns into a permanent component of their home, and their lives, because they go on a two-year, around-the-world trip to find a treat. As Chika’s boundless optimism and laughter instruct Mitch the joys of looking after a child, he learns a relationship built on like, no real matter what blows it takes, can never become lost.

Told in hindsight, and through illuminating conversations with Chika herself, that is Albom at his many poignant and susceptible. Finding Chika can be a celebration of a girl, her adoptive guardians, and the incredible bond they formed – a devastatingly gorgeous portrait of what it means to be a family, it doesn’t matter how it is made.