Marguerite Abouet

• Feb-2007
• / General Fiction
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"That's what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the . . . war and famine, an Africa that endures despite everything because, as we say back home, life goes on." --Marguerite Abouet
Ivory Coast, 1978. Family and friends gather at Aya's hou...

• Sep-2008
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“[Aya] wittily delves into both the political and the pop during an enchanted era when anything seemed possible.” -- Vibe VixenThe original Drawn & Quarterly volume of Aya debuted last year to much critical acclaim, receiving a Quill Award nomin...

• Sep-2009
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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 Clément...

• Sep-2012
• / Literary
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“Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for becoming African. It’s essential reading.” -- Joann Sfar, cartoonist of The Rabbi’s CatIvory Coast, 1978. It’s a golden time, and the nation, too -- an oasis of afflue...

• Sep-2012
• / Graphic Novel
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Ivory Coast, 1978. It’s 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 Abouet’s youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studio...

• Feb-2013
• / Literary
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THE DRAMATIC CONCLUSION TO THE AYA SERIESAya: Love in Yop City comprises the final three chapters of the Aya story, episodes never before seen in English. Aya is a lighthearted story about life in the Ivory Coast during the 1970s, a particu...

• Feb-2013
• / Graphic Novel
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Aya: Love in Yop City comprises the final three chapters of the Aya story, episodes never before seen in English. Aya is a lighthearted account of life in the Ivory Coast during the 1970s, a particularly thriving and wealthy time in the country's his...

• Jul-2013
• / Graphic Novel
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Poor Akissi! The neighborhood cats are pursuing her to steal her fish, her little monkey Boubou almost ends up in a frying pan, and she's nothing but a pest to her older brother Fofana, but Akissi is a true adventurer, full of silliness and fun, and ...

• May-2018
• / General Fiction
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"utterly unputdownable" -- The New York Times

A Kirkus Best Book of 2018, Akissi: Tales of Mischief brings together the first volume of the hilarious and heartfelt Akissi comics by Marguerite Abouet, the award winning author of Aya of Yop Cit...

• Jul-2019
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The plucky, troublemaking Akissi is back with her mischief on The Ivory Coast! This time, she has to keep herself from drowning, stand up to a bully, make peace with her arch nemesis--the prettiest girl in school, and evade a witch doctor's potion.

• Sep-2020
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Our favorite troublemaker is back in this graphic novel collection of wild childhood adventures set on the Ivory Coast by award-winning author Marguerite Abouet (Aya of Yop City) and artist Mathieu Sapin.

With the first volume selected as a Ki...

• Mar-2024
• / Graphic Novel
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Abidjan’s favorite daughter returns in an all-new volume of writer Marguerite Abouet’s beloved seriesLong-time creative team Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie make a stunning comeback after a lengthy twelve-year hiatus. Aya:...