This intimate memoir details Smith’s relationship with famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and traces her own beginnings as an artist and musician in New York in the ‘60s & ‘70s. You don’t have to be a fan of her music to appreciate Smith’s gorgeous prose and thoughtful insight on the community that became her family.
--Rachel Y.

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