Riveting, elegant, humorous-and illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids-New York Times bestseller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.

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, in which she debates intellectual grifte...