About the Book: Aya: Life in Yop City
""Aya "is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for
becoming African. Its essential reading." -Joann Sfar, cartoonist of "The Rabbis
Cat"""Ivory Coast, 1978. Its 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 Abouets youth 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. Its a wryly
funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday
life in Yop