{"product_id":"year-of-the-monkey","title":"Year of the Monkey","description":"\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Riveting, elegant, humorous—this \"picaresque voyage through Patti Smith’s 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. I llustrated by Smith’s signature Polaroids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing 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 of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaking 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, it’s 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncluding 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":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":53956610556272,"sku":"978-1984898920","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/810_kKzM9ML._SY522.jpg?v=1782742851","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/year-of-the-monkey","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}