Bread of Angels
A Memoir
A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids
“God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper,” writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbors, an infested rat house, and beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child’s world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with tortoises and turns pennies into gold.
The most intimate of Smith’s suite of memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us from her teenage years where the first glimmers of art…
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November 4, 2025PATTI SMITH is the author of Just Kids, which won the National Book Award in 2010, and of M Train, as well as numerous collections of poetry and essays. Her seminal album Horses has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres; she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.
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