Aya
Subtitle: the secrets come out
By: Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie ; [translation by Helge Dascher].
Contributors: Oubrerie, Clément.; Dascher, Helge, 1965-
Edition: 1st hardcover ed.
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly; Distributed in the USA and abroad by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Montréal; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781897299791
Subjects: Teenage girls -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Comic books, strips, etc; Comic books, strips, etc. -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Translations into English; Côte d'Ivoire -- Social conditions -- 1960- -- Comic books, strips, etc; Côte d'Ivoire -- Social life and customs -- Comic books, strips, etc; Côte d'Ivoire -- Comic books, strips, etc
Genres: Comic books, strips, etc; Translations into English
Work titles: Aya de Yopougon. 3.
Description: Aya has captured the hearts of North American readers of all ages for the rare portrait it paints of a vibrant, happy, bourgeois Ivory Coast in the 1970s, based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. Not only is Aya complemented with Clement Oubrerie's gorgeous artwork, but the volumes also offer a slice of life peek into African culture: complete with recipes, glossaries, and wardrobe instructions for turning one's pagne (brightly colored fabric) into a skirt, head wrap, or baby carrier.
Notes: "[T]hird volume" -- p. 4 of cover.

"Previously published in French by Gallimard Jeunesse as part of the Joann Sfar edited Bayou Collection"--T.p. verso.