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 na ve 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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Published: 08/08/2017
ISBN: 9781770462823
Pages: 448
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.30w x 1.70d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/13/2017
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2017 pg. 24
Booklist 07/01/2017 pg. 36
Shelf Awareness 10/17/2017
School Library Journal 01/01/2018