![]() She’s the calm, smart and rational presence around whom all others revolve, a source of problem-solving sound advice, whether or not people want to take it. ![]() Presented as a complete story the events flow much more smoothly.ĭespite Aya being the title character, she’s just one of an ensemble cast in what’s comedy drama, introduced via family portraits at the start. Likewise, what Aya’s father Ignace is up to is only revealed toward the end of the second episode. The simple Hervé is introduced midway through the opening episode, yet it takes until near the end of the story for his purpose to become clear. Marguerite Abouet plots her engaging drama as a complete story, and involves a wide cast, which leaves foreshadowing elements in the individual books sometimes left hanging. The most important is that it simply reads better in combined form. Those books each provide around a hundred pages of story, but this combined version is the better buy for several reasons. ![]() We visit them for a period of about eighteen months over what was originally issued as three separate graphic novels: Aya, Aya of Yop City and The Secrets Come Out. ![]() Life in Yop City concerns nineteen year old Aya, her friends and their families and the wider community of the Youpogon district of Ivory Coast’s capital Abidjan as the 1970s becomes the 1980s. ![]()
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