Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy.

It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists ascent, a prelude to fame.

Written by Bruna

This is one of my favorite books of all time. Not only because it tells us a lot about the 70’s art/music scene (which I love!), but because most precious is the love and sensibility with which she writes about her relationship with Mapplethorpe and her relationship with art itself.

With a very honest and pure recounting of her memories, Patti guides us through her ups and downs, her thoughts, and her desire to find her voice using art.

I got very emotional and inspired by this book, especially being an artist myself and seeing how pursuing art can be hard, but still beautiful, still fluid, still necessary.

  • Prophet Song
  • Dom Casmurro
  • Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
  • Interior Chinatown
  • The Safekeep
  • To Be Taught, If Fortunate
  • Educated: A Memoir
  • A Deadly Education
  • The Gay Best Friend
  • Viscount in Love