New book by Patti Smith - "a stunning, soothing work"

Year of the Monkey is a new memoir by Patti Smith, where dreams mix with reality and shows the singer and poet "most at ease when... close to death", as PopMatters put it (a good part of the book is about Sam Shepard). So, worth a read? - "It is satisfying to catch-up with her each time, seeing what new things she's thinking about in her same beautiful way".