The Oracle's Daughter: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult
Excellent ... Powerful ... Sensitively rendered ... This is exactly the kind of story that the true-crime industrial complex lives to hyperventilate over. But Hill is an extremely skilled writer, and his conscientious, measured reporting is a gift. He’s also a reliable guide who’s managed to create stunningly vivid scenes from the memories with which his subjects have trusted him.
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The twists and turns Hill follows throughout this true story are extraordinary, and the author does a wonderful job of contextualizing the painful, sometimes horrifying choices his subjects made – especially those involving women leaving their children, which, as he points out, would be perceived very differently if these women had been men ... The Oracle's Daughter is a story about the terror of losing the self but it's also, gratifyingly, a story about finding the way back to it.
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An unsettling tale of a uniquely extremist American religious movement ... A chilling American 'city upon a hill' narrative turned in on itself.
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