Just Kids: the National Book Award-winning memoir

In Just Kids, Patti Smith takes readers on a journey through her early years in New York City, delving into her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Set against the backdrop of the city's countercultural scene in the late sixties and seventies, this book is a touching tribute to their love as well as an incisive account of being young, ambitious, and artistic in Seventies New York. Smith brings her unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids, offering a never-before-seen glimpse into the lives of two iconic artists as they forged their paths in an eccentric milieu of Beat poets, Warhol socialites, and transvestites, rock stars and artists. This heartfelt, illuminating book has been lauded by critics and readers alike, winning the National Book Award and earning praise from publications such as the Sunday Times, New York Times, and Vogue.