‘So honest and pure as to count as a true rapture’ JOAN DIDION

‘A poetic masterpiece’ JOHNNY DEPP

‘Our St John of the Cross, a mystic full of compassion’ EDMUND WHITE

‘A roadmap to my life’, from the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of cafes and haunts she has worked in around the world

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M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s s