Home Baked

<strong>Winner of the California Bookseller Association's Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction <br> Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography <br> A <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em> Bestseller <p/> A portrait of a heroics innovation grit and pot-baking . . . strikingly relevant . . . beautifully written.</strong> <br><strong>--<em>Entertainment Weekly</em> <p/> 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.</strong> <br><strong>--Armistead Maupin</strong> <p/> 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. <p/> By turns heartbreaking exhilarating and laugh-out-loud funny <em>Home Baked</em> celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family taking us through love loss and finding home. <p/><strong>Now with extra material including a reading group guide author Q&A and additional photos! </strong>