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A house in the sky : a memoir (38356) |
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Professional Library
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| | Synopsis
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"The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity
about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous
countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of
harrowing captivity in Somalia -a story of courage, resilience, and
extraordinary grace. At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved
from her hardscrabble Alberta hometown to the big city -Calgary -and
worked as a cocktail waitress, saving her tips so she could travel
the globe. As a child, she escaped a violent household by paging
through National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic
locales. Now she would see those places for real. She backpacked
through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by
each experience, went on to travel solo across Sudan, Syria, and
Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a
fledgling career as a TV reporter. And then, in August 2008, she
traveled to Mogadishu, Somalia -"the most dangerous place on Earth"
-to report on the fighting there. On her fourth day in the country,
she and her photojournalist companion were abducted. An astoundingly
intimate and harrowing account of Lindhout's fifteen months as a
captive, A House in the Sky illuminates the psychology, motivations,
and desperate extremism of her young guards and the men in charge of
them. She is kept in chains, nearly starved, and subjected to
unthinkable abuse. She survives by imagining herself in a "house in
the sky," looking down at the woman shackled below, and finding
strength and hope in the power of her own mind. Lindhout's decision,
upon her release, to counter the violence she endured by founding an
organization to help the Somali people rebuild their country through
education is a wrenching testament to the capacity of the human
spirit and an astonishing portrait of the power of compassion and
forgiveness"—
| | Author
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Lindhout, Amanda
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Corbett, Sara
| | Dimensions
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22 cm
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This Scribner export edition August 2014.
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9781451651485 (pbk.)
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373 pages, 4 unnumbered pages
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Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett.
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Locally Reviewed Novels(CK);
Canada—Biography;
Hostages—Biography;
Journalists—Biography;
Somalia—History;
Corbett, Sara,—author(A);
Lindhout, Amanda(A)
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070.92 LIN
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Locally Reviewed
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