{"product_id":"a-house-in-the-sky-9781451645613","title":"A House in the Sky","description":"\u003cb\u003eBREAKING NEWS: Amanda Lindhout's lead kidnapper, Ali Omar Ader, has been caught. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmanda Lindhout wrote about her fifteen month abduction in Somalia in \u003ci\u003eA House in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e. It is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most remote places and then into captivity: \"Exquisitely told...A young woman's harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHeld 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, \u003ci\u003eA House in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e is \"a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion--for her na?ve younger self, for her kidnappers--that becomes the key to Lindhout's survival\" (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmanda 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSara Corbett is a contributing writer to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has also appeared in \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613400174866,"sku":"9781451645613","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d971d28f-a2ec-43d9-8ca5-b3253f228931.jpg?v=1732399634","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-house-in-the-sky-9781451645613","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}