The Aya story began two decades ago, when Marguerite Abouet, a Parisian legal assistant with roots in Ivory Coast, got together with Clement Oubrerie, an animator and children's book illustrator, to produce a graphic novel inspired by her African childhood.
If this new volume is frequently very funny, it's also sharp: here, for instance, are a couple who don't know whether to be more alarmed by their gay son or their unnervingly literate toddler grandson (either way, neither must be spoken of in front of their neighbors or not until a traditional doctor has been consulted).
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