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Scribner
September 2013
On Sale: September 10, 2013
384 pages
ISBN: 1451645600
EAN: 9781451645606
Kindle: B00A27XEMW
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose
curiosity led her to the world’s most beautiful and remote
places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then
into fifteen months of harrowing captivity—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 Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.”
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
“wife lessons” from one of her captors, and risks a daring
escape. Moved between a series of abandoned houses in the
desert, she survives on memory—every lush detail of the
world she experienced in her life before captivity—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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