{"product_id":"house-in-the-sky","title":"House In The Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA House in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e is the dramatic and redemptive memoir of Amanda Lindhout, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAs a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e and imagining herself in 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeld 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, \u003ci\u003eA House in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e is the searingly intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity. For fans of the award-winning blockbuster \u003ci\u003eCaptain Phillips \u003c\/i\u003eand readers of Kate McCann''s \u003ci\u003eMadeleine, \u003c\/i\u003eNatasha Kampusch''s \u003ci\u003e3,096 Days\u003c\/i\u003e and Greg Mortenson''s \u003ci\u003eThree Cups of Tea.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmanda Lindhout is the founder of the Global Enrichment Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports development, aid and education initiatives in Somalia and Kenya. For more information, visit Amandalindhout.com and globalenrichmentfoundation.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312721404286,"sku":"NW9780670920860","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780670920860.jpg?v=1778246888","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/house-in-the-sky","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}