I read this book for the 2025 Book Riot Read Harder challenge- a graphic novel in translation. I picked it based on a NYPL recommendation and took it out of the library. About a quarter of the way into it I felt like Inwas reading a sequel and sure enough I was- the first book, Aya, follows the characters a year earlier. i will request that one at the library also. In the meantime I enjoyed the book, the story of teenaged girls in 1970s West Africa- the Ivory Coast. Aya is bookish and smart and hangs out with her friends Bintou, who has a new boyfriend, and Adjoua, who is the mother of a baby whose paternity is an issue. Meanwhile Aya’s father has employment shifts that reveal secrets from his family. It’s a sweet story that ends with a twist suggesting the need for a sequel- which the author appears not to have written. I enjoyed this story and would like to read more from the author