Patti Smith is an American rock singer and poet, friend and favorite model of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. In her memoirs, she paints an accurate and at the same time deeply personal portrait of the era. New York in the late sixties and early seventies, the atmosphere of Andy Warhol's Factory and the Chelsea Hotel, meetings with the great beat poets and legendary musicians - all this is inextricably intertwined with the story of growing up and creative growth of Patti herself, one of the brightest representatives of the generation . “Just Children” is not only an invaluable testimony of time and a poignant declaration of love to a departed friend. This is the poet’s deep, precise, imaginative prose, which goes far beyond the scope of the memoir genre.