A House in the Sky: A Memoir
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | Corbett, Sara |
| By (author): | Lindhout, Amanda |
| Subject: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers |
| BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General | |
| BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs | |
| BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women | |
| Publisher: | Scribner |
| Published: | August 2014 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 400 |
| Size: | 8.37in x 5.50in x 1.20in |
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Additional Notes
| From The Publisher* | The New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most remote places and then into fifteen months of captivity: "Exquisitely told…A young woman's harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph" (The New York Times Book Review). As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, 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 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. Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is "a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion-for her naïve younger self, for her kidnappers-that becomes the key to Lindhout's survival" (O, The Oprah Magazine). |
| Biographical Note | Amanda Lindhout is the founder of the Global Enrichment Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports development, aid, and education initiatives in Somalia and Kenya. For more information, visit AmandaLindhout.com and GlobalEnrichmentFoundation.com. |