Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

nWinner of the California Bookseller Association's Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction n Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography n A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller n A portrait of a heroics, innovation, grit, and pot-baking . . . strikingly relevant . . . beautifully written. n--Entertainment Weekly n n A raunchy and rollicking account of a vanished era told by someone who paid very close attention to her larger-than-life parents. I gobbled it up like an edible. n--Armistead Maupin n n In the 1970s, when cannabis was as illicit as heroin, Alia Volz's mother ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, a pioneering underground bakery that delivered ten thousand marijuana edibles per month to a city in the throes of change--from the joyous upheavals of gay liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple. Dressed in elaborate costumes, Alia's parents hid in plain sight, parading through the city's circus-like atmosphere with the goods tucked into her stroller. When HIV/AIDS swept San Francisco in the 1980s, Alia's mom turned from dealer into healer, providing soothing edibles to those fighting for their lives at the dawn of medical marijuana. n n By turns heartbreaking, exhilarating, and laugh-out-loud funny, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family, taking us through love, loss, and finding home. n nNow with extra material, including a reading group guide, author Q&A, and additional photos! n