A Memoir About The Year 2016 In Which Dreams And Reality Are Interwoven -- Provided By Publisher. Following 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 With No Design, Yet Heeding Signs--including A Talking Sign That Looms Above Her, Prodding And Sparring Like The Cheshire Cat. In February, A Surreal Lunar Year Begins, Bringing With It Unexpected Turns, Heightened Mischief, And Inescapable Sorrow. In A Stranger's Words, Anything Is Possible: After All, It's The Year Of The Monkey. For Smith--inveterately Curious, Always Exploring, Tracking Thoughts, Writing--the Year Evolves As One Of Reckoning With The Changes In Life's Gyre: With Loss, Aging, And A Dramatic Shift In The Political Landscape Of America. Smith Melds The Western Landscape With Her Own Dreamscape. Taking Us From California To The Arizona Desert; To A Kentucky Farm As The Amanuensis Of A Friend In Crisis; To The Hospital Room Of A Valued Mentor; And By Turns To Remembered And Imagined Places, This Haunting Memoir Blends Fact And Fiction With Poetic Mastery. The Unexpected Happens; Grief And Disillusionment Set In. But As Smith Heads Toward A New Decade In Her Own Life, She Offers This Balm To The Reader: Her Wisdom, Wit, Gimlet Eye, And Above All, A Rugged Hope For A Better World. Riveting, Elegant, Often Humorous, Illustrated By Smith's Signature Polaroids, Year Of The Monkey Is A Moving And Original Work, A Touchstone For Our Turbulent Times. Way Out West -- Icu -- Yom 2016 -- What Marcus Said -- Big Red -- Intermission -- Home Is The Sailor -- Imitation Of A Dream -- Black Butterflies -- Amulets -- In Serach Of Imaginos -- Why Belinda Carlisle Matters -- The Holy See -- The Mystic Lamb -- The Golden Cockerel -- A Night On The Moon -- A Kind Of Epilogue. Patti Smith. A Borzoi Book--title Page Verso.

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