Patti Smith Announces New Memoir ‘Bread of Angels’

Patti Smith‘s forthcoming memoir Bread of Angels took a decade to write, and captures “the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime,” according to the singer-songwriter.

In a statement, Smith said that with her new book she hopes “that people will find something they need.” According to a summary of the book, this will be the artist’s “most intimate” memoir yet and follows Smith through her teenage years, journey writing poetry and recording her iconic work such as Horses and Easter, and marriage to Fred “Sonic” Smith as they were embarking on “new adventures as they start their family.”

“As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life, and, finally, writing again — the one constant on a path driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope,” reads a synopsis of the book.

In an Instagram post announcing her new work, Smith shared a photo of herself alongside her parents and captioned, “This is with my mother and father who inspired much of my next book Bread of Angels. The memoir, a bright and dark dance of life.” Bread of Angels will arrive on Nov. 4 via Random House.