This month we’re featuring new writing in French by immigrants to France. Whether they come from former colonies or non-Francophone nations, the writers here explore their new country (and, often, language) from a dual perspective, drawing on their previous and current lives to expand and reframe contemporary French literature. Aziz Chouaki tracks an Algerian immigrant’s frenetic first night in Paris. Iranian Négar Djavadi finds her home with Johnny Rotten. In 1994 Rwanda, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse battles family tension exacerbated by ethnic conflict. Rachid O.‘s Moroccan teen falls in love with both a boy and a country. Zahia Rahmani shows how a doubly exiled Algerian girl recovers her language and, with it, her memories. And Shumona Sinha’s bewildered Hindu escapes death threats, only to undergo a far worse interrogation at the hands of immigration. WWB editorial director Susan Harris provides an introduction.