Amanda Lindhout's book "A House in the Sky," co-authored by Sara Corbett, a contributing writer with the New York Times Magazine is seen in this undated handout photo. After about a year of being starved, beaten and sexually brutalized, Amanda Lindhout decided it was time to kill herself.The Alberta woman, taken hostage in Somalia in August 2008, says she reached her breaking point after spending three days trussed up like an animal, her hands and feet pulled so tightly behind her back that she could barely breathe. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO