{"product_id":"over-easy","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.","brand":"Drawn \u0026 Quarterly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947931402471,"sku":"9781770468030","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_25ad5a22-427e-4361-8248-5e8b1b744ba9.jpg?v=1775503836","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/over-easy","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}