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.Įxquisitely written and devastatingly honest, Riding Fury Home is a shattering account of one family’s struggle against homophobia and mental illness-and a powerful story of healing, forgiveness, and redemption. Her book details her relationship with her mother Gloria, whose suicidal depressions and electric shock therapy make sense only after Chana and then Gloria come out in the 1970s. Riding Fury Home spans forty years of the intense, complex relationship between Chana and her mother-the 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. This January, Chana Wilson presented moving excerpts from her memoir, Riding Fury Home, to a full house at Laurel Books. 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. On her return, Chana became the caretaker of her heavily medicated, suicidal mother. Gloria reveals that she’d been in a major love relationship with a woman in the 1950s, and.

The gun jammed and she was taken away to a mental hospital. This January, Chana Wilson presented moving excerpts from her memoir, Riding Fury Home, to a full house at Laurel Books. Exquisitely written and devastatingly honest, Riding Fury Home is a shattering account of one family’s struggle against homophobia and mental illness-and a powerful story of healing, forgiveness, and redemption.In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother attempted suicide, holding a rifle to her own head and pulling the trigger. 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. In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother attempted suicide, holding a to her own head and pulling the trigger. 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 mother-the 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. The gun jammed and she was taken away to a mental hospital. In 1958, when Chana Wilson was seven, her mother attempted suicide, holding a rifle to her own head and pulling the trigger.

Riding Fury Home by Chana Wilson