6/20/2023 0 Comments Over Easy by Mimi Pond![]() Gradually she realizes that the adults she looks up to are a mess of contradictions, misplaced artistic ambitions, sexual confusion, dependencies, and addictions. At first she mimics these new and exotic grown-up friends, trying on the guise of adulthood with some awkward but funny stumbles. ![]() After being denied financial aid to cover her last year of art school, Margaret finds salvation from the straightlaced world of college and the earnestness of both hippies and punks in the wisecracking, fast-talking, drug-taking group she encounters at the Imperial Café, where she makes the transformation from Margaret to Madge. Over Easy is a brilliant portrayal of a familiar coming-of-age story. A fast-paced semi-memoir about diners, drugs, and California in the 1970s. ![]()
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