Alia Volz
Auteur van Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
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Alia Volz's work has been published in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, Bon Appetit, and The Best Women's Travel Writing. She's received fellowships from Mac-Dowell and the Ucross Foundation. Her unusual family story has been featured on Snap Judgment, Criminal, and NPR's Fresh Air.
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Alia Volz weaves a masterful story here that really defies classification; Home Baked is simultaneously a family memoir, a gleeful 'true crime' tale, a gay history, a modern marijuana chronicle, and an ode to San Francisco.
I read most of the last half of Home Baked aloud to my wife and there were moments where I was so emotional, I couldn't continue, my voice cracking over the heartbreaking reality of AIDS.
This line punched me in the gut right at the end "Cannabusiness crossed a bridge of human bones".… (meer)