The poignant and uplifting memoir of a young woman, a fledgling journalist, who survived the terrifying ordeal of being kidnapped in Somalia. Her account illuminates the motivations of her abductors, and how she survived by finding strength and hope in the power of her mind.[...]

The dramatic and redemptive memoir of 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
As a child, Amanda[...]

The "New York Times" bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world's most remote places and then into fifteen months of captivity: "Exquisitely told...A young woman's harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph" ("The New Yor[...]