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The Customer Is Always Wrong Hardback - 2017

by Mimi Pond

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A young woman's art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholism

The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young nave artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a cheap and quirky haven for eccentrics and Mimi Pond folds the tales of the fascinating sleaze-ball characters that surround young Madge into her workaday waitressing life. Outrageous and loving tributes and takedowns of her co-workers and satellites of the Imperial Cafe create a snapshot of a time in Madge's life where she encounters who she is, and who she is not.

Told in the same brash yet earnest style as her previous memoir Over Easy, Pond's storytelling gifts have never been stronger than in this epic, comedic, standalone graphic novel. Madge is right back at the Imperial with its great coffee and depraved cast, where things only get worse for her adopted greasy spoon family while her career as a cartoonist starts to take off.

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  • Title The Customer Is Always Wrong
  • Author Mimi Pond
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Hardback
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Drawn & Quarterly, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2017-08-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781770462823 / 1770462821
  • Weight 2.5 lbs (1.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 6.3 x 1.7 in (21.59 x 16.00 x 4.32 cm)
  • Category Graphic Novels
  • Library of Congress subjects Graphic novels, Restaurants
  • Dewey Decimal Code 741.597

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  • Booklist, 07/01/2017, Page 36
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2017, Page 24
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/13/2017, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 01/01/2018, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 10/17/2017, Page 0

About the author

Mimi Pond is an American cartoonist, humorist, and writer. She wrote the pilot episode of The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" . She is the winner of the PEN Center USA award for Graphic Literature Outstanding Body of Work. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the artist Wayne White.
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