Blair Hurley’s fascinating book “Minor Prophets” is set in the isolated wilderness of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Growing raised in a fanatical end-of-the-world religious cult. Nora realizes she has a knack for prophecy and speaking in tongues. She must decide whether to fully commit to her faith. And her assigned job or face expulsion from the strange and terrifying world outside.
Years later when Nora is employed in Chicago as a hospice nurse the details of her escape are revealed by the reemergence of her past. This personal account of a survivor examines faith, family, and the haunting fallout from cult life.