Meanwhile Bintou starts an affair with a flashy Ivorian expat, who she thinks will whisk her away to the finer parts of Paris (she doesn’t yet know what Belleville is).
Unfortunately, Adjoua gets knocked up by a mysterious beau and decides to pin it on Moussa ( Jacky Ido), the shiftless son of a wealthy brewery magnate, hoping to secure her family’s future in the process. Though Aya narrates most of the action, two of the film’s major storylines actually involve her BFFs Bintou ( Tella Kpomahou) and Adjoua ( Tatiana Rojo), both of whom dream of marrying a rich guy and opening their own beauty salons. She lives in Montreal.Still, there’s much to feast one’s eyes and ears on here, as we watch aspiring doctor Aya ( Aissa Maiga) deal with the mishaps of her extended network of friends and family, all of whom live in the shoddy township of Yopougon in the late ’70s. With a background in art history and history, she also translates books and exhibitions for museums in North America and Europe. A contributor to Drawn & Quarterly since the early days, her translations include acclaimed titles such as Hostage by Guy Delisle and Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. Dascher has been translating graphic novels from French and German to English for over twenty years. Aya: Life in Yop City has been translated from the French by Helge Dascher. Aya is the winner of the Best First Album award at the Angouleme International Comics Festival, the Children’s Africana Book Award, and the Glyph Award was nominated for the Quill Award, the YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels list, and the Eisner Award and was included on “best of” lists from The Washington Post, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal. Drawn & Quarterly has release volumes four through six of the original French series (as yet unpublished in English) in Aya: Love in Yop City. This reworked edition offers readers the chance to immerse themselves in the lively world of Aya and her friends, bringing together the first three volumes of the series in Book One. Clément Oubrerie’s warm colors and energetic, playful line connect expressively with Marguerite Abouet’s vibrant writing. It’s wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted 19-year old Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet’s youth in Yop City. It’s a golden time, and the nation, too-an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa-seems fueled by something wondrous.
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