Watch Us Dance

The second in a planned trilogy inspired by acclaimed author Leïla Slimani’s French-Moroccan family, Watch Us Dance is a shimmering unfolding of the characters we met the first time around. The story of Mathilde’s struggle as an independent French woman in traditional Moroccan society now recedes into the more complex and politically charged web of her extended family and their forbidden alliances. Postcolonial Morocco – and the societal fractures caused by the influx of European and American hippies in the 1960s – form the backdrop to this magnificently woven tapestry of the personal and the political.