bbNATIONAL BESTSELLER -b Riveting, elegant, humorous--this picaresque voyage through Patti Smith's dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones iThe New York Timesi is ba moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Ibllustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids.bbb pFollowing a run of new year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, in which she debates intellectual grifters and spars with the likes of a postmodern Cheshire Cat. Then, in February 2016, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. For 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