![]() In the back of the book are questions that can be used for a book discussion group, and I highly recommend the book for lgbt+ groups to read together. (This facilitates an exposé of the dismal ableism mental patients endured, subjected to terrifying and dehumanizing abuse at hospitals.) The bad being the long and difficult road to recovery, and the good being the women’s lib movement of the ’70’s, and Chana and Gloria’s beautiful, successful heart healing. It shows the good, the bad and the ugly of being a lesbian in those eras, the ugly being the homophobia of the fifties, when homosexuality was considered a disease of the mind. The main narrative covers four decades, from the 1950’s to the 1990’s. Riding Fury Home is an important book for lesbian history. The following years were spent rediscovering and rebuilding their mother-daughter relationship as two women, two lesbians. This was all kept a secret from her daughter until Chana was in her twenties and came out. Gloria, married and with one child, attempted suicide after the woman she loved left her. The two women are so connected in so many ways in love, in resentment, in pain and healing, but, at the deepest level, in life- life lived and shared and fought for. ![]() ![]() Riding Fury Home by Chana Wilson packs an extra punch because we are invited to witness not only the story of the author’s life, but also of her mother Gloria’s life. ![]() ![]() A woman telling her own story in her own words is a powerful emotional force. ![]()
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