A "witness"/"documentary" novel. Entertaining despite the lack of a proper plot. I recommend it, including to non-french readers. It hasn't been translated, and I doubt it will be, but just in case I'll review it in English.
The protagonist/author, "Stress", is a white kid, whose mother runs a cultural center (writing sessions, poetry etc) in a poor area of Marseille. In his teens, his friends are mostly (North) African immigrants, some of them illegals, passing the time together, hustling, and comitting petty crimes and occasionally getting in fights; some of them will make it to a working class life, others won't. Growing up, our protagonist has ambitions of becoming a "real artist", of making a proper movie. But just as he was too white and too French during his teens among migrants, he is too rough around the edges for the art world. So he keeps on struggling to find his way.
The structure was at times confusing (we move back and forth in time); the language was not always understandable (I guess this is meant for other Marseillais); and the lack of an overarching plot makes it more difficult to care about the characters. Despite all that there is something raw and fresh, not forced, which gives "Cinq dans tes yeux" enough street cred to impress its readers, most of whom will probably be the kind of cultured middle class people that Stress envies but rejects.
(3.5 stars, rounded down.)