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Aya: Life in Yop City

Aya: Life in Yop City

SeriesAya de Yopougon
PublisherDrawn & Quarterly
Date2012-07
TypeGraphic Novel, Trade Paperback
LanguageEnglish
ArtistClément Oubrerie
Introduction ByAlisia Grace Chase
TranslatorHelge Dascher, Dag Dascher
WriterMarguerite Abouet
GenreLiterature
Published inMontréal, QC
Pages382
ISBN978-1-77046-082-9
NotesCover price: $24.95 US and CANADIAN 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 19-year old Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It’s wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City.