{"product_id":"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mimi Pond","offers":[{"title":"Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly Publications |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2025-09-16","offer_id":48585309225215,"sku":"9781770468030","price":29.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e0d00941-dbfa-4860-9c70-8d60193d0e78.jpg?v=1779822133","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781770468030","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}