{"product_id":"over-easy-9781770468030","title":"Over Easy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the late 70s\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret takes a waitressing job at local Oakland fixture: the Imperial Café. Here an impressionable young woman transforms into the worldly Madge as she is introduced to the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-binging cooks, dishwashers, and waitstaff in her new life. At first she mimics these new and exotic grown-up friends, trying on the guise of adulthood with some awkward but funny stumbles. Gradually she realizes that these adults she idolizes are a mess of contradictions, misplaced artistic ambitions, sexual confusion, dependencies, and addictions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOver Easy\u003c\/i\u003e is equal parts time capsule of late 1970s life in California--with its deadheads, punks, disco rollers, casual sex, and drug use--and bildungsroman of a young woman who grows from a naïve, sexually inexperienced art-school dropout into a self-aware, self-confident artist. Mimi Pond's chatty, slyly observant anecdotes create a compelling portrait of a distinct moment in time. \u003ci\u003eOver Easy\u003c\/i\u003e is an immediate, limber, and precise semi-memoir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMimi Pond\u003c\/b\u003e is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. She has created comics for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, Seventeen magazine, National Lampoon\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications. She has also written for television: her credits include the first full-length episode of \u003ci\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire\", and episodes for the television shows \u003ci\u003eDesigning Wome\u003c\/i\u003en and \u003ci\u003ePee Wee's Playhouse\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the painter Wayne White.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603326435602,"sku":"9781770468030","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a966ec48-fdbe-462f-9b95-13a28822a136.jpg?v=1757434122","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/over-easy-9781770468030","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}