Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/379992 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Year of the Monkey Author: Patti Smith Narrator: Patti Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 31 minutes Release date: September 24, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: Riveting, elegant, and humorous, New York Times bestseller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.   Following a run of new year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, in which she debates intellectual grifters and spars with the likes of a postmodern Cheshire Cat. Then, in February 2016, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. For Smith—inveterately curious, always exploring, always writing—this becomes a year of reckoning with the changes in life’s gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America.  Taking us from California to the Arizona desert, from a Kentucky farm to the hospital room of a valued mentor, Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape in a haunting, poetic blend of fact and fiction. As a stranger tells her, “Anything is possible. After all, it’s the Year of the Monkey.” But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world.   Named one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year—now including a new chapter, 'Epilogue of an Epilogue'—Year of the Monkey “reminds us that despair and possibility often spring from the same source” (Los Angeles Times).