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Just Kids
By Patti Smith
304 pages;
Ecco
Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Fiction
The singer-icon's memoir about coming of age with soul mate Robert Mapplethorpe. Funny, fascinating, oddly tender.
— Kate Miller
Published 04/21/2011
