THE SON OF SEVEN MOTHERS

THE SON OF SEVEN MOTHERS
May 3

A man shares his story of growing up in a late 20th-century
American cult—and how he escaped—in this gripping
autobiography.

As the adopted son of two cult leaders, Benjamin Risha was raised
to someday assume a place of leadership in the Alamo Christian
Foundation, with the Bible, and his parents’ interpretations of it,
as his guide. He believed the prophecies of his adoptive mother and
father, Tony and Susan Alamo, including them being the two prophets
foretold in the Book of Revelations who precede the second coming
of Jesus Christ, them rising from the dead after they died, and
such dire warnings as the ground opening up to swallow
non-believers into hell. And he was sure that Susan Alamo could
raise the dead as promised.

However, when none of it happened, and the foundation slid from
bucolic communal lifestyle to insufferable criminality that
included absolute obedience to the Alamos, and polygamous marriages
with girls as young as eight years old, Benjamin knew he had to
escape. If he were caught trying to escape, he would be severely
beaten, forced to go without food and water for his sins, and
shamed in the community. So, he embarked on a journey to locate his
birth parents, discover the truth about a world he knew nothing
about . . . and find himself.

In The Son of Seven Mothers, Benjamin Risha takes readers on a
harrowing journey that few in the United States can imagine. And
eventually he must choose between the life he knows and was
“chosen” to lead, and his freedom.

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