![]() The depth of human cruelty can make a harsh read. You are best warned that this is no ordinary biography. It is definitely 18+ Not for the faith hearted. ![]() This may seriously be the most gripping story you'll ever read/listen to but. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the tortured woman kept in chains in the dark.Ī House in the Sky is the searing and intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity. 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. Held 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. On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. And then, in August 2008, she travelled to Somalia – "the most dangerous place on earth." ![]() ![]() ![]() Later in life, in war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq, she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales. ![]()
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