Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angoulême 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. Aya wittily delves into both the political and the pop during a. This continuation of the dynamic story returns to Africa's Ivory Coast in the late 1970s, where life in Yop City is as dramatic as ever. Read 200 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.

Drawn & Quarterly will release volumes four through six of the original French series (as yet unpublished in English) in Book Two. Aya debuted to much critical acclaim, receiving a Quill Award nomination and praise for its accessibility and for the rare portrait of a warm, vibrant Africa it presents. 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. Clément Oubrerie’s warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet’s vibrant writing. 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 Ivory Coast, 1978.

“Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for becoming African.

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