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The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the worldâÈçs most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivityâÈ'an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace
As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress in Calgary, Alberta, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to SomaliaâÈ'âÈêthe most dangerous place on earth.âÈë On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road.
Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda converts to Islam as a survival tactic, receives âÈêwife lessonsâÈë from one of her captors, and risks a daring escape. Moved between a series of abandoned houses in the desert, she survives on memoryâÈ'every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivityâÈ'and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark, being tortured.
Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is the searingly intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity.
As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress in Calgary, Alberta, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to SomaliaâÈ'âÈêthe most dangerous place on earth.âÈë On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road.
Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda converts to Islam as a survival tactic, receives âÈêwife lessonsâÈë from one of her captors, and risks a daring escape. Moved between a series of abandoned houses in the desert, she survives on memoryâÈ'every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivityâÈ'and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark, being tortured.
Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is the searingly intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity.
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- Title A House in the Sky
- Author Amanda Lindhout; Sara Corbett
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 373
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
- Date 2013-09-10
- ISBN 9781451645606 / 1451645600
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.2 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Journalists - Canada, Somalia - History - 1991-
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013016015
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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