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!
