Ayais the winner of the Best First Album Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival was nominated for the YALSA's Great Graphic Novels list and was included on "best of" lists from The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. Inspired by Abouet's childhood, the series has received praise for offering relief from the disaster-struck focus of most stories set in Africa. This second volume of the complete Aya includes unique appendices-recipes, guides to understanding Ivorian slang, street sketches, and concluding remarks from Marguerite Abouet explaining history and social milieu. With a little help from the tight-knit community of Yopougon though, Aya comes through these trials stronger than ever. Pictured as places of war and famine, she saw literature’s failure to capture the humor and. Abouet has said that she began to write the Aya graphic novels this one is the first in an informal series because she was frustrated with the limited portrayal of cities in Africa. When a professor tries to take advantage of Aya, her plans to become a doctor are seriously shaken, and she vows to take revenge on the lecherous man. Featured city: Yopougon (or Yop City), Ivory Coast. While the stories found in Aya: Love in Yop City maintain their familiar tone, quick pace, and joyfulness, we see Aya and her friends beginning to make serious decisions about their future. Aya is a lighthearted story about life in the Ivory Coast during the 1970s, a particularly thriving and wealthy time in the country's history. The dramatic conclusion to the Aya seriesĪya: Love in Yop City comprises the final three chapters of the Aya story, episodes never before seen in English.
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