Everything Makes Me Prosperous: A Memoir of Hope and Redemption

A boy quivers in fear at the sight of his unhinged mother. It's dark, and she's raving again. "Take these pills with me," she tells him, "and all the pain will go away."

This was only the beginning for Joseph Adevai. His mother tried to convince him to commit suicide. She brainwashed him into believing his father was a monster. She kidnapped him from the life he knew and forced him to live under a false name. These horrors led Joe to the life of a high school dropout, a drug abuser and deale...