One Book One Town Authors to Speak March 26

Fairfield’s One Book One Town month-long celebration of, A House in the Sky, will be Wednesday, March 26 at the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University at 7 pm.   The authors Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett will be speaking at the signature event.

This critically acclaimed memoir tells a story that needs to be heard.  As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of “National Geographic” and imagining herself in its exotic locales.  Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America and Southeast Asia.  Emboldened, she went on to war-torn regions including Sudan, Syria and Pakistan, carving out a fledgling career as a reporter in Afghanistan and Iraq.  In 2008, she traveled to Somalia, “the most dangerous place on earth.”  On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road.  Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda converts to Islam as a survival tactic and eventually risks a daring escape.  Moved between abandoned houses in the desert, she survives on memory, strategy, fortitude, and hope.  When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains and tortured.

The Fairfield Public Library - along with its community partners – Pequot Library, Fairfield University, Fairfield University Bookstore and Fairfield Museum and History Center are proud to present A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett as the official selection for One Book One Town 2014.  This is the seventh year that Fairfield has embraced “One Book One Town” and it is our hope that this book has inspired a community-wide conversation.  The selection beautifully conveys a message of hope, survival, compassion and forgiveness in the midst of unimaginable circumstances.

You must have advanced registration in order to attend.  All programs at the Fairfield Public Library are free of charge.  For more information and to register for this event call 203-256-3160, or visit us on the web www.fairfieldpubliclibrary.org .  Follow the Fairfield Public Library on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fairfieldpublib and Facebook: www.facebook.com/fairfieldlibrary.