Welcome MIMI POND! "Do Admit! The Mitford Sisters and Me" Book Party October 19th, 2025

Please join us in welcoming and fete-ing New York Times bestselling author, Mimi Pond, to celebrate her new book, "Do Admit! The Mitford Sisters and Me" on October 19th at 3pm. (Doors at 3, event begins 4pm.) Hailed as "imaginative" (NYT), "irresistible" (Publisher's Weekly), and "the best biography of The Mitfords to date" (L.A. Times), "Do Admit" is a graphic novel masterpiece -- part history, part memoir, and all brilliant.

Before there were Kadashians, Olsens, or Gabors, there were the Mitford sisters. Born with pedigrees but without the pocketbooks to match, The Mitfords were certainly no strangers to lies, intrigue, or scandal. The sisters grew from cloistered turn-of-the-century country girls into debutantes who would marry into political influence--for better or worse. Is it any wonder that a young, working class Mimi in Southern California becomes enamored with The Mitfords' downright fanciful rich-and-famous lifestyle?

This charming, inventively cartooned, and lovingly researched biography captures the dramatic, over-the-top antics of high society's strongest personalities as they rubbed elbows with some of history's most infamous fascists and communists.
Pond's genius for classic cartooning in the vein of the Vanity Fair caricature and the satirical illustrations of Charles Addams brings the aesthetic decadence of the 1920s and '30s to life with effortless aplomb, warts and all.

I do admit, Mimi is a dear friend of mine and I have followed the progress of this labor of love from the get-go, and to not only have the finished product in the shop and throwing an event for her is a huge honor and delight. (And seeing the spread in the New York Times was a delight, too! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/books/review/mimi-pond-mitford-sisters-do-admit.html) So please join me in celebrating my friend and her wonderful book on October 19th!

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