Bread of Angels
Illness in childhood, Mapplethorpe lost to AIDS, a husband dead, a brother gone weeks later. Patti Smith sets it down in her plain devotional register.
Smith’s memoir of a life defiant of the odds: a childhood of illness, the loss of Robert Mapplethorpe to AIDS, the death of her husband Fred, and her brother’s stroke a few weeks later. Written in the plain, devotional register she has made her own, and unhurried even when the losses arrive on top of one another.
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Maria Popova
In her moving memoir Bread of Angels (public library), she traces the trajectory of a life stubbornly defiant of the odds
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