{"product_id":"9780349136851-the-oracles-daughter","title":"The Oracle's Daughter","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Woman's Escape From Her Mother's Cult\u003cbr\u003eA work of deeply reported narrative non-fiction about one woman's escape from a paramilitary religious cult founded by her mother, interweaving the history of fringe religion and radical belief in America and culminating in a series of terrible crimes committed by cult members who believed they were following God's orders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Terrifying, gripping, all true. I couldn't put it down' Stephen King\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Excellent. told with rare sensitivity. Hill is an extremely skilled writer, and his conscientious, measured reporting is a gift. The propulsive feel of a novel.' New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Troubling, uplifting, heartbreaking. a masterwork.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRon Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life, Animated\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a cool autumn night in 1999, twenty-six-year-old Sarah Green crept out of her house and ran for her life. She was escaping not just the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, a paramilitary religious cult operating out of the New Mexico desert, but also the cruelty of the cult's leader-her mother, Deborah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Oracle's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, Harrison Hill traces the fascinating beginnings and violent end of ACMTC, from its early days as an outgrowth of the hippie movement, through the conspiracy-theorist 1990s and into the present day. It follows Deborah, the group's founder and self-proclaimed oracle; Maura, one of its first members; and Sarah, Deborah's daughter, among the cult's primary victims.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a propulsive, deeply researched narrative, \u003ci\u003eThe Oracle's Daughter \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates the strange world of religious cults-and how more vulnerable we are to extremism than we might like to think.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57647906357622,"sku":"9780349136851","price":23.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40835339_3c60e070-c2b8-4d93-8024-b0a9641bfe7a.jpg?v=1776406614","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780349136851-the-oracles-daughter","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}