NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In this “deightful compendium of everything you ever wanted to know about”(The Washington Post) Joni Mitchell, the eternal singer-songwriter is seen anew, portrayed through a witty and comprehensive exploration of anecdotes, quotes, and lyrics by Henry Alford, “thmost graceful of humorists”(Vanity Fair) and a writer for The New Yorker.Joni Mitchell’slife, psyche, and evolving legacy are explored here in vivid technicolor—frm her childhood in Saskatoon, Canada, to her arrival in Laurel Canyon that turned her into, as Alford puts it, “thbard of heartbreak and longing.”Each period of Mitchell’slife is observed via the artists, friends, family, and lovers she encountered along the way, including James Taylor, Leonard Cohen, Georgia O’Kefe, Prince, and, most significantly, Kilauren, the daughter Mitchell gave up for adoption at birth but then reconnected with decades later. Presented in the impressionistic vein of Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, I Dream of Joni explores in fifty-three essays, with the author’strademark wit and verve, the life of the legendary singersongwriter.