A House in the Sky

This non-fiction story about the author's 15 month captivity is written with beautiful descriptions of the places she travelled and a matter-of-fact tone that makes her horrific experiences in captivity that much more horrifying. One of my favorite quotes from the book comes after the two captives, Amanda and Nigel, celebrate Christmas by creating gifts for one another with whatever was available and trading them through a bathroom they shared: “I loved him in that moment, on that day, more than I'd ever loved anyone, in a way that reached past the standard boy-girl love and hit some sort of deeper bedrock. I loved him as a human, with no complication.”