Watch Us Dance: A Novel

It´s the 1960s, and the air is electric. On the cusp of adulthood, two biracial siblings-one strong-willed and strait-laced, the other free-spirited and self-destructive-search for their place in a newly independent Morocco. But soon they find the ideals of their youth colliding with the realities of racism and corruption, as Moroccans once united against their colonizer make a grab for wealth and influence, and the national spirit of communal celebration gives way to elites telling everyone else to "watch us dance." Drawing on her family´s inspiring story, Leila Slimani delivers a tense, provocative, page-turning novel about one family´s, and one country´s, coming of age in the face of the seductions of power and privilege.