I couldn’t put it down.”
The propulsive feel of a novel.”—The New York Times
A “deeply compelling” (Booklist) chronicle of the rise and fall of a woman-led cult — and the enduring allure of extremism across America’s turbulent religious history.
On a cool fall night in 1999, twenty-six-year-old Sarah Green crept out of her house, retrieved a backpack from its hiding place, and ran for her life. She was escaping not just the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, a paramilitary religious cult in the New Mexico desert, but also the cruelty of the cult’s leader — her mother, Deborah.
In THE ORACLE’S DAUGHTER, Harrison Hill tells the shocking true story of ACMTC, from its beginnings in the counterculture to the explosive trial that would lead to its downfall. As gripping as it is deeply researched, THE ORACLE’S DAUGHTER also explores the fascinating world of cults — and gives “a bracing sense of how mainstream the fringe can get” (Oprah Daily).
Photo by Sebastian Kim.
Harrison Hill grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University, where he also taught undergraduate writing. His journalism and essays have appeared in The Cut, GQ, Vogue, Travel + Leisure, AFAR, The Guardian, and The Threepenny Review. The Oracle’s Daughter is his first book.