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Under An Afghan Sky
Under An Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity | Mellissa Fung
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In October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a long-time reporter for CBC’s The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul. Suddenly, she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. When the group finally reached a village in the middle of nowhere, her kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. For twenty-eight days, Mellissa Fung lived in that hole, which was barely big enough to stand up or lie down in, nursing her injuries, praying, writing in her notebook and, as a veteran journalist, interrogating her own captors. Under an Afghan Sky is the gripping tale of Fung’s days in captivity, and a powerful book about survival and the indomitable spirit of one woman in the most perilous of circumstances.
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cathysaid
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I made it halfway through but I can't do anymore. Writing style is fluent and it started out strong, but then it fizzled. It's day after day of living in a hole in the ground with her captors, and very little happens. Which I understand was part of the hell she went through, but it just doesn't translate effectively to the page. "Gripping" is certainly not a good descriptor.

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cathysaid
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Sounds like a scene from a movie, right? But no, this is an account by a journalist of her kidnapping in Afghanistan. And this is the first paragraph...so I'm hooked! #nonfiction