num_pages: 432
description: 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 Franciscofor 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 10000 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 townand through the scenes and upheavals of the day from Gay Liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Templein 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.
language: None
title: Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt