In her latest memoir, the music legend takes the reader into her confidence while she tells of journeys and pilgrimages, some short, some lengthy, all magical. Patti Smith has so many of them, too, and they?re all different, complex and enchanting. They wind around each other like rope. It?s like having that worldly distant relative gather the young cousins together at a boring family event and confide in them fantastic, intricate experiences. If you enjoyed 2010?s National Book Award-winning Just Kids, this book will undoubtedly please you as well. Patti makes being wise and smart such appealing qualities?can she please have a new young audience, which adores her like their elders did? These views into Patti Smith?s life often seem so fantastical one could feel they are reading fiction, if we didn?t know better, and if her moody photographs throughout weren?t there for proof as well. It?s good that someone gets to live this uncompromising a life in the 21st century, since most of us won?t have (or take) that opportunity. Like Just Kids did, getting these glimpses of what she does with her time and her mind are purely fascinating and glorious to read.
