Volz Alia
Volz Alia - Home Baked My Mom Marijuana And The Stoning Of San Francisco - Paperback
Volz Alia - Home Baked My Mom Marijuana And The Stoning Of San Francisco - Paperback
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Description: Winner of the California Bookseller Association's Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller A portrait of a heroics innovation grit and pot - baking strikingly relevant beautifully written. Entertainment Weekly " 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." Armistead Maupin 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. 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. Now with extra material including a reading group guide author Q& A and additional photos!
Title: Home Baked My Mom Marijuana And The Stoning Of San Francisco
Author(s): Volz Alia
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780358505020
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/20/2021
Description: Winner of the California Bookseller Association's Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller A portrait of a heroics innovation grit and pot - baking strikingly relevant beautifully written. Entertainment Weekly " 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." Armistead Maupin 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. 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. Now with extra material including a reading group guide author Q& A and additional photos!
Title: Home Baked My Mom Marijuana And The Stoning Of San Francisco
Author(s): Volz Alia
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780358505020
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/20/2021
