An Excerpt from the New Memoir A House in the Sky

Trying to make her way as a journalist, Amanda Lindhout went to Somalia with a photographer ex-boyfriend to find a great story. Four days in, she was kidnapped by Somali extremists and held hostage for more than a year. Here, in an excerpt from her gripping new memoir, A House in the Sky, published by Scribner on September 10 and cowritten with Sara Corbett, she remembers her first harrowing days in captivity.