Albom conveys the heartbreak of watching her suffer (Chika endured surgeries, and lost teeth and hair), while capturing Chika’s sweet spirit and youthful resilience. Doctors in Haiti didn’t have the means to treat Chika, so Albom and his wife-who never had kids-brought her home to Michigan to help save her. In 2013, fun-loving Chika became a resident and, two years later, was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Albom took over the management of an orphanage there. Albom’s powerful second memoir (after Tuesdays with Morrie) is a tribute to Chika, an orphaned Haitian girl whom Albom and his wife, Janine, cared for from age five to age seven, when she died from a brain tumor.
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