{"product_id":"a-house-in-the-sky","title":"A House in the Sky","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmanda Lindhout's unforgettable hostage memoir recounts her fifteen-month abduction in Somalia and her extraordinary journey toward hope and redemption in this powerful true story of survival, resilience, and forgiveness.\u003c\/b\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, this gripping survival memoir 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\" (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947913707751,"sku":"9781451645613","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_d447039b-cc91-4f67-a909-2e14f66beafa.jpg?v=1775503355","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/a-house-in-the-sky","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}