{"product_id":"bread-of-angels-patti-smith","title":"Bread of Angels — Patti Smith","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"339\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"337\"\u003eTIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 · NPR Books We Love · Named a Best Book of 2025 by \u003cem data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"297\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"315\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, and Barnes \u0026amp; Noble\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"341\" data-end=\"724\"\u003eIn her most intimate memoir yet, Patti Smith traces the delicate thread between childhood imagination, artistic awakening, great love, and profound loss. From a postwar New Jersey housing complex filled with vanishing neighbors and fairy-tale shadows, to the early sparks of poetry and music inspired by Rimbaud and Dylan, Smith recounts the moments that shaped her into an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"726\" data-end=\"1033\"\u003eWe follow her through first romances, the wild beginnings of her creative life, her marriage to Fred “Sonic” Smith, and the quiet magic of raising a family beside pear trees and willows. Grief enters, too — and Smith writes through it with her signature mix of clarity, tenderness, and mystical intuition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1035\" data-end=\"1194\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1035\" data-end=\"1052\"\u003eBread of Angels\u003c\/em\u003e is a radiant memoir about devotion: to art, to love, to imagination, and to the small rituals that turn the everyday into something sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1196\" data-end=\"1242\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1196\" data-end=\"1240\"\u003eFrom our book truck to your book shelves…!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-start=\"1244\" data-end=\"1247\"\u003e","brand":"Meant Well Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45109110112428,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/3192\/0556\/files\/81wYKcp9_GL._SL1500.jpg?v=1765081886","url":"https:\/\/www.meantwellbooks.com\/products\/bread-of-angels-patti-smith","provider":"Meant Well Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}