![]() ![]() Aya, now 19, grew up in this tight-knit neighborhood and loves its lively open markets, bright fabrics, funky cafés, and omnipresent music. Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angouleme International Comics Festival, the Children's Africana Book Award, and the Glyph Award was nominated for the Quill Award, the YALSA's Great Graphic Novels list, and the Eisner Award and was included on "best of" lists from The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. This continuation of the dynamic story by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie returns to Africas Ivory Coast in the late 1970s, where life in Yop City. Adapting her best-selling graphic novel series to film, Marguerite Abouet along with co-director Clément Oubrerie have brought to life the colorful scene of 1970s Yop City in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. Drawn Quarterly will release volumes four through six of the original French series (as yet unpublished in English) in Book Two. This reworked edition offers readers the chance to immerse themselves in Abouet's Yop City, bringing together the first three volumes of the series in Book One. It's a wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City.Ĭlement Oubrerie's warm colours and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet's vibrant writing. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted nineteen-year-old Aya, her easygoing friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbours. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. ![]() It's a golden time, and the nation, too - an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa - seems fueled by something wondrous. ![]()
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