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ARC Review #4 – Aya of Yop City, Abouet

28 December 2008

 

 Country: Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa
Author: Marguerite Abouet (& Clement Oubrerie)
Review: This is the continuation of the story started in Aya, about the three friends from Youpougon, the working-class neighbourhood of Côte d’Ivoire of the 1970s, three fairly ordinary young women in a working class neighbourhood (Youpougon, in Abidjan), and their teenage lives. The first book ends with the [...]

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ARC Review #3 – Aya, Abouet

11 September 2008

Country: Ivory Coast Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa
Author: Marguerite Abouet (& Clement Oubrerie)
Review: Yes, yes, another coming of age novel. But I had to think about this one, because (a) it’s not All About Me, and (b) it’s a graphic novel. It’s about three young women in the Ivory Coast [...]

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