Joining memoirs like M Train and the National Book Award winner Just Kids, Patti Smith takes us through a year of wandering, loss, and portents for the future: 2016, Year of the Monkey. Following New Year's concerts at the Fillmore in San Francisco, she tramps across her inner and outer landscapes, aimless but heeding signs, taking unexpected turns. Smith bids farewell to friend and poet Sandy Pearlman, joins Sam Shepard as he assembles his final book, and witnesses the foreboding shift in American politics. Her prose is elegiac, elegant, even humorous, illuminated by her Polaroid photos throughout.