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

Jonathan's Pick I picked this up in an airport, after scanning the blurb. It's shocking to me that I have no stronger memory of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, with an estimated 150,000+ deaths. This is Mitch Albom's story of his personal response, opening an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, and desperately trying to find a cure for one little girl, Chika. I cried in nearly every chapter, so if you want to really feel, read this.  Description Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart.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 Albom operates in Port Au Prince. With no children of their own, the forty-plus