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Two people kidnapped by Somali Muslim terrorists for 460 days, this is the woman, Amanda's story. A book you will have a hard time putting down, an incredible memoir of survival in the face of torture, rape, starvation, and despair. Harrowing, intense, very well written.
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Perhaps I wasn't supposed to walk away from this book thinking, "I hate men, and I'm never going to Somalia" but I did. Lindhout recounts her years as a wanderluster traveling around the world and encountering a variety of men whom I found repugnant (and doing other stuff, yes yes) which evolved into her self-taught journalistic endeavors while still a young woman living in the Middle East and Africa. A stint in Somalia ended in her kidnapping alongside her ex-boyfriend/photographer as well as t
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