We Are Happy to Serve You

NY, 1996. One of eight copies, signed by the artist.. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. (12)pp. Printed in gum and typeset on a Macintosh Quadra, We Are Happy to Serve You details, with wry humility, the experience of a fresh college graduate navigating a waitressing job in Philadelphia. It concludes with the bold realization that you can serve others best by serving yourself, and that shrugging off the weight of deference - so often shouldered by the young, and especially by young women - leads to a true sense of ability and social betterment. An at times humorous, at times poignant address of the service industry, fully and playfully illustrated in restaurant motifs. Endpapers reprint a collage of real restaurant paraphernalia. Bound in boards cut to resemble an apron, with real apron affixed across both covers. Fine. Housed in clamshell box.