Riding Fury Home

In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother attempted suicide, holding a rifle to her own...
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Author: Chana Wilson
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Riding Fury Home by Wilson, Chana

Riding Fury Home

BD$31.96

Riding Fury Home

BD$31.96
Author: Chana Wilson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother attempted suicide, holding a rifle to her own head and pulling the trigger. The gun jammed and she was taken away to a mental hospital. On her return, Chana became the caretaker of her heavily medicated, suicidal mother. It would be many years before she learned the secret of her mother s anguish: her love affair with another married woman, and the psychiatric treatment aimed at curing her of her lesbianism.
Riding Fury Home spans forty years of the intense, complex relationship between Chana and her motherthe trauma of their early years together, the transformation and joy they found when they both came out in the 1970s, and the deep bond that grew between them. From the intolerance of the 50s to the exhilaration of the women s movement of the 70s and beyond, the book traces the profound ways in which their two lives were impacted by the social landscape of their time. Exquisitely written and devastatingly honest, Riding Fury Home is a shattering account of one family s struggle against homophobia and mental illnessand a powerful story of healing, forgiveness, and redemption.
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Author: Chana Wilson
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Published: 04/01/2012
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.54w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9781580054324


Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Gold Medal Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/12/2012
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2012
Booklist 04/01/2012 pg. 7
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2012
Kirkus Bea Big Book Guide 05/15/2012 pg. 45

About the Author
Chana Wilson is a psychotherapist and a former radio producer and television engineer. She began her career in broadcast journalism as a radio programmer with KPFA in Berkeley, California. Her work hosting the KPFA program A World Wind--in which she interviewed poets, musicians, writers and activists--sparked her desire to work with people on a deeper level. Now a psychotherapist for twenty-four years, she credits the extraordinary courage of her clients for inspiring her to write.

Wilson's writing has appeared in the print journals The Sun and Sinister Wisdom, the online journals Roadwork and Aunt Lute, and in several anthologies. Since the publication of Riding Fury Home, Wilson has become a blogger on the Huffington Post. Her essays have been Editor's Choice on Salon.com.

Since the mid-eighties, Wilson has been playing percussion with the women's samba band Sistah Boom.

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