Aya: Life in Yop City
Clément Oubrerie, Marguerite Abouet, Marguerite Abouet & Clément Oubrerie
Translated by Helge Dascher
04 September 2012Synopsis
Experience the award-winning series about independent young women growing up in 1970s Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, 1978. It's a golden time, and the nation, too-an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa-seems fueled by something wondrous. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted nineteen-year-old Aya, her easygoing...
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04 September 2012
9781770460829Reviews
“Oubrerie's style animates both the broadly funny and painfully grave moments in Abouet's rhythmic slice-of-life storytelling.” —The Washington Post
“Marguerite Abouet's comic tells of a lost age, a time in the late 1970s when the Ivory Coast was basking in the glow of an economic boom, when disco seeped from the open air clubs in Abidjan and teenage girls such as Aya, Adjoua and Bintou were able to enjoy one last flirtatious summer before adulthood . . . Abouet's is a gentle, nostalgic account.” —Craig Taylor, The Guardian
