![]() Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angoul me 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. Drawn & Quarterly will release volumes four through six of the original French series (as yet unpublished in English) in Book Two.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. Aya, her first comic, taps into Abouets childhood memories of Ivory Coast in the 1970s. At the age of 12, she was sent with her older brother to study in France under the care of a great uncle. Clément Oubrerie’s warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet’s vibrant writing. Marguerite Abouet was born in Abidjan in 1971. ![]() It’s a wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City. 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 neighbors. 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. It’s essential reading." -Joann Sfar, cartoonist of The Rabbi’s Cat ![]() ![]() "Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for becoming African. ![]()
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