A graphic novel about the daily life of a nineteen-year-old girl named Aya living in Yopougon, Africa, during 1978; exploring her relationships with her father, who manages a beer company, and two best friends, who are determined to marry a wealthy man, and her own ambitions to attend college and become a scientist.
year: 2007, 2012
call number/section: 1000, 741.5, 741.59
subjects: teenage girls, fiction, fathers and daughters, girls, teenagers, father-daughter relationship, africa, history, 1960-, fiction, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels
Editions
Abouet, Marguerite
Distributed in the USA and abroad by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2007)
A graphic novel about the daily life of a nineteen-year-old girl named Aya living in Yopougon, Africa, during 1978; exploring her relationships with her father, who manages a beer company, and two best friends, who are determined to marry a wealthy man, and her own ambitions to attend college and become a scientist.
Schools: 7
Abouet, Marguerite
Drawn & Quarterly (2012)
A graphic novel about the daily life of a Aya, a nineteen-year-old girl living in Yopougon on Africa's Ivory Coast in 1978, her two best friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors.
Schools: 2