About the Book: Bread of Angels
A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the
National Book Award Winner Just Kids.
God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this
indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood
unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail:
consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a
beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the childs world of the imagination
where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes
bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and