Home Baked

My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

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Pub Date 20 Apr 2020 | Archive Date 20 May 2020

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans of Armistead Maupin and Patricia Lockwood

During the '70s in San Francisco, Alia's mother ran the underground Sticky Fingers Brownies, delivering upwards of 10,000 illegal marijuana edibles per month throughout the circus-like atmosphere of a city in the throes of major change. She exchanged psychic readings with Alia's future father, and thereafter had a partner in business and life.

Decades before cannabusiness went mainstream, when marijuana was as illicit as heroin, they ingeniously hid themselves in plain sight, parading through town—and through the scenes and upheavals of the day, from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple—in bright and elaborate outfits, the goods wrapped in hand-designed packaging and tucked into Alia's stroller. But the stars were not aligned forever and, after leaving the city and a shoulda-seen-it-coming divorce, Alia and her mom returned to San Francisco in the mid-80s, this time using Sticky Fingers' distribution channels to provide medical marijuana to friends and former customers now suffering the depredations of AIDS.

Exhilarating, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreaking, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family, taking us through love, loss, and finding home.
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an...

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ISBN 9780358006091
PRICE $27.00 (USD)
PAGES 432

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Read if you: Want a bizarre, hilarious, insightful, and moving memoir of a childhood shaped by 1970s-80s San Francisco.

Alia Volz had quite the unique childhood; raised by parents deeply in the "New Age" movement and running a marijuana brownie business made that quite clear. Volz balances her fascinating home life with the rise of the LGBTQ+ movement in San Francisco, as well as the devastation of AIDS in the Bay Area. The road to legalization and acceptance of medical marijuana was paved with the anger and tears of AIDS victims, survivors, and those who loved them.

Librarians and booksellers: AIDS-related books and books about the legalization movement are slowly on the rise. This is a fantastic read that will open many eyes.

Many thanks to Houghton Miifflin Harcourt and NetGalley for a digital review copy in exchange for an honest review.

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