Trace the Rise and Fall of an American Cult in The Oracle’s Daughter — See the Cover!
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Harrison Hill was “gobsmacked” when he began talking to the source of inspiration for his forthcoming nonfiction debut — and that “astonishment” only grew as he kept researching the cult she recalled escaping from.
In The Oracle’s Daughter: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult, out this April, the author explores what a synopsis calls the “true story of the rise and fall of a woman-led cult,” The Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps in Fence Lake, N.M.
“In 2019, my brother and his wife introduced me to their neighbor, Sarah Green — she’d escaped a cult run by her mother, and was ready to tell her story,” Hill tells PEOPLE. “From our first conversation … I knew I had to write about her.”
He became more intrigued as he “spoke with other former members of the cult, went on reporting trips to California and rural New Mexico, and followed the legal battle surrounding the group that only concluded this past April,” he adds.
“I’m so excited to bring readers into the world that has consumed me these past five and a half years, not just because I find the story so compelling, but because of what it reveals about America, America’s religious history and human nature itself — how all of us are surprisingly vulnerable to the call of extremism.”
Ahead of the release, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of The Oracle’s Daughter, which features an image of Sarah Green, who escaped both ACMTC and the treatment of her mother and its leader, Deborah Green, in 1999.
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