![]() "A charming, loosely autobiographical story of Pond’s early years."— National Post Best of 2017 An Oakland that doesn't exist anymore, a culture that doesn't exist anymore, and people that don't exist anymore, in more ways than one. a look at the end of a wild ride, punctuated by deeply profound moments in a time that could swallow you whole."— San Francisco Chronicle "The sobering wake-up call to naive nostalgia. If Pond’s last book was a sitcom, The Customer is Always Wrong would be an HBO drama with a Sunday night time slot."— Jezebel 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. ![]() 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. 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. 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. ![]() The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naïve artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. A young woman’s art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholism ![]()
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