From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable
odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts
she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a
roadmap to my life."
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning
for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and
writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and
reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and
inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's