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Bread of Angels — Patti Smith
$38.00
TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 · NPR Books We Love · Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Guardian, The New Yorker, and Barnes & Noble
In 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.
We 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.
Bread of Angels is a radiant memoir about devotion: to art, to love, to imagination, and to the small rituals that turn the everyday into something sacred.
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