{"product_id":"year-of-the-monkey-1984898922","title":"Year of the Monkey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1984898922\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Smith, Patti\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER  Riveting, elegant, humorous-this \"picaresque voyage through Patti Smiths dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones (The New York Times) is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Illustrated by Smiths signature Polaroids.Following a run of new years concerts at San Franciscos 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 lifes gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.Taking us from California to the Arizona desert, from a Kentucky farm to the hospital room of a valued mentor, Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape in a haunting, poetic blend of fact and fiction. As a stranger tells her, Anything is possible. After all, its the Year of the Monkey. 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.Including a new chapter, \"Epilogue of an Epilogue,\" and ten new photos, Year of the Monkey reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source (Los Angeles Times).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51907507945760,"sku":"NEW1984898922","price":13.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/810_kKzM9ML.jpg?v=1782241710","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/year-of-the-monkey-1984898922","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}