cover blurb - February 2016, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and also inescapable sorrow. For Patti Smith - inveterately curious, always exploring, always writing - this becomes a year of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.
As Patti Smith travels from CA to AZ to KY, her dreamlike writing and haunting Polaroids give Year of the Monkey quite a reflection on a life. She's a unique woman - funny, wise, odd, endearing, and weird. There are times I wasn't sure I truly understood her message or thought process. However, this book is unique and intriguing, as is the singer poet rebel that is Patti Smith.
Most of that description you used about Patti Smith could be... me. HA (Especially the "odd" and "weird"...)
ReplyDeleteSounds like an interesting book. Thanks.
Have a super weekend.
my favorite of hers is Just Kids. She's an interesting person always a bit ahead of her time
DeleteIt do sounds interesting Joanne. Thanks for the review.
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Yvonne.
thanks.
DeleteThis sounds intriguing. Thanks for the review. Hope you have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteyou have to be in the mood for some weirdness. One to read an ponder
Deletehaha sounds like all attributes that work well as one
ReplyDeleteshe's been through a lot and truly does sit, think, and write
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