{"id":1210,"date":"2013-10-24T17:05:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T22:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2014-08-01T20:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T01:55:38","slug":"riding-fury-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/riding-fury-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding Fury Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/riding.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1199\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/riding.png\" alt=\"Cover of Riding Fury Home\" width=\"124\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/759491809\">Chana Wilson.\u00a0 Riding Fury Home.\u00a0Seal Press, 2012.\u00a0 PB. 384p. $17. 978-1580054324.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chana Wilson\u2019s memoir Riding Fury Home chronicles her remarkable, challenging relationship with her mother that ranges from the height of dysfunction to a bond so deep most people could only imagine having with a parent.<\/p>\n<p>The narrative begins with Wilson as a lonely child in 1950\u2019s New Jersey, feeling the loss of a mother who is basically incapacitated because of the radical treatment and heavy drugs she receives at various mental institutions.<\/p>\n<p>As a twenty-something, politically active lesbian in the Bay Area during the early 1970\u2019s, Wilson is happy to be free of the burden of her mother. The twist is that after Wilson comes out as gay, her mother follows suit. Her declaration that she is a lesbian paves the way for reconciliation and for her mother to reveal her experiences of confinement in mental institutions and a loveless marriage with Wilson\u2019s father. Wilson comes to the realization that \u201chomophobia had shattered us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the story that Wilson presents is a dramatic one, dealing with strong personalities, intense political movements, and the worst of homophobia, the writing is at times a bit too timid, too careful.\u00a0\u00a0 Much of the book is spent on Wilson\u2019s childhood and college years. It doesn\u2019t really get moving until 200 pages in, but it\u2019s worth the wait.\u00a0 The writing is very accessible, at times funny and other times sad, with the main focus on relationships, both familial and romantic. The women\u2019s movement and gay liberation are primarily left as backdrops.<\/p>\n<p>Riding Fury Home is light reading on heavy subjects and a good addition to any public library biography collection.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer: <strong>Kevin Coleman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Librarian I, Alameda Free Library<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chana Wilson.\u00a0 Riding Fury Home.\u00a0Seal Press, 2012.\u00a0 PB. 384p. $17. 978-1580054324. Chana Wilson\u2019s memoir Riding Fury Home chronicles her remarkable, challenging relationship with her mother that ranges from the height of dysfunction to a bond so deep most people could only imagine having with a parent. The narrative begins with Wilson as a lonely child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,42,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}