Just Kids is Patti Smith's memoir of her and Robert Mapplethorpe's time together as young artists on the streets of New York City. Smith is a poet, singer, songwriter that writes of her life with a person who she loved and found creatively inspiring.  The time was the late 60's and 70's and life in New York was an ever-changing amazing place to be. From their first home together in Brooklyn that they furnished with furniture found on the street, to their tiny room at  the Chelsea hotel where they meshed with like-minded creative souls, Smith tells a story of two young people figuring out who they were and the driven artists they became. Smith and Mapplethorpe took care of each other, held each other up, and pushed each other to keep going and not give up at the lowest of times.

Just Kids is filled with captured moments such as the time Allen Ginsburg tried to pick her up in an automat because he thought she was a pretty young man, and when she met Jimmi Hendrix in the stairwell of his recording studio because she had been too shy to actually go in. I loved this book so much, I found it  inspiring, poetic, artistic, and entertaining. ~Mara