Just Kids is the diary of a friendship, the admiration without envy, the brother-sister language. As Patti said: "When I look at it now, I never see me, I see us." And Robert is the blue star that offers light for Patti's personal cosmology.
In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies.