The Customer is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond

The Customer is Always Wrong is the continuing saga of a young naive artist working in a restaurant of drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a scuzzy, low-rent warzone and Mimi Pond folds the tales of the sleaze-ball characters that sur- round her 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 Mimi 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 novel. She drops readers right back at the Imperial with its great coffee and depraved cast, where things only get worse for the addicts and alcoholics surrounding her while her career as a cartoonist starts to take off.

About the Author
Mimi pond started her career as a cartoonist at the National Lampoon in the late 70s. In the years following, she wrote and illustrated five humour books and contributed regularly to dozens of national magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. In 2014, she published the first part of her coming of age memoir, Over Easy. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband the painter Wayne White. She is now close friends with Monica Lewinsky.


Book Information
ISBN 9781770462823
Author Mimi Pond
Format Hardback
Page Count 448
Imprint Drawn and Quarterly
Publisher Drawn and Quarterly