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"Time Train" is Patti Smith's new memoir that is hard to categorize and sincere in emotion after "Just Kids". The author calls this book his "road map of life," which is about memory and creation, literature and coffee, meditation and detective drama, about mourning and hope, and about time and its passage. There are a total of twenty essays in the book, like twenty suspended stations, connecting the cafes or other places she visited during her travels around the world. The dots of light reflected by the prism of memories bring readers into the place of her inspiration and desire. "Time Train" begins with Eno's Coffee. In this Greenwich Village cafe that she visits every morning, Smith sips black coffee and watches the mirage of today's world. With a nostalgia for the past appearance of things, she often immerses herself in a notebook and writes furiously... Her smooth and exquisite brushstrokes lead readers to shuttle between dreams and reality, the past and the present.