


Not long after Chika joined the group of children that the Alboms were caring for, she began showing signs of illness - drooping cheeks, an altered gait.įollowing a doctor visit in Port-au-Prince, during which the physician told them that Chika had a brain tumor and that “there is no one in Haiti who can help her,” Mitch and Janine flew back to Detroit with Chika in hopes of finding a cure. It’s a lesson we learned in the international bestseller Tuesdays With Morrie, and it’s extremely evident in Mitch Albom’s newest book Finding Chika.įinding Chika tells the true story of a little girl named Chika from the Haitian orphanage that Mitch Albom and his wife, Janine, run.

Sometimes, the people we least expect to enter our lives have the greatest impact.
