Brynne’s Reviews > Just Kids > Status Update

This is such a hopeful, transportive work!

“The Chelsea was like a doll’s house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms- each, a small universe. I wandered the halls, seeking its spirits, dead or alive.”

Additionally- I’m stunned by the pure span of her experience- how she transitions with ease from the Louisa May Alcott days of her rural upbringing in the 1940s to the heat and thrill of New York City in the 1960s. The consistent references to Catholicism, and how, for those of us who were raised on it, its teachings remain omnipresent, have me HOOKED

Her prose is so rich and vivid!! - pink light washing over cities, worlds occurring beneath eyelids- Patti Smith is a master at observing, appreciating and remembering. Her reverence, gratitude and grounded, tranquil nature make her not just an excellent narrator, but a positively dear, beloved and inspiring one