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Over Easy

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Title: Over Easy
Author: Mimi Pond

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This sweet memoir chronicles Mimi Pond's time waitressing at the Imperial Cafe, a bohemian diner in Oakland, California during the late 1970s. Pond is a graphic novelist and television writer whose credits include the first full-length episode of The Simpsons.

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'Over Easy' Serves Up Savory Memories Of A Vintage Diner

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'Over Easy' Serves Up Savory Memories Of A Vintage Diner

April 17, 2014 • Mimi Pond's graphic memoir is a rose (or in this case aqua) tinted recollection of her time waitressing at a bohemian diner in Oakland in the 1970s. Reviewer Etelka Lehoczky says it's a sweet tribute.

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From Over Easy by Mimi Pond, copyright 2014 by Mimi Pond. Excerpted with permission from Drawn & Quarterly.