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The Story of My Teeth
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Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer—the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.
Highway is a late-in-life world traveller, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the ‘notorious infamous’ like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli’s own literary influences.
Highway is a late-in-life world traveller, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the ‘notorious infamous’ like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli’s own literary influences.
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Rolando Chapa
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LikeableMorally ambiguousMultilayeredOriginalAddictiveConfusingDisjointedGripping/excitingNonlinear narrativeSatisfying conclusionTwistyUnpredictableAtmosphericEvocative imageryExpansiveGrittyImmersive world-buildingNostalgicSetting fits the storySurrealUnique locationVivid descriptionsDescriptiveEasy to readFlowery/lushFunnyOriginalWhimsical toneWitty
Cinnabal
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“A really interesting collaborative novel. The afterword does a great job at recontextualizing the novel and its narrator. It is an experimental piece that plays with the boundaries of prose and even the boundaries of what could be considered ekphrastic.”
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Stargrl314
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“What the hell did I just read? If you put a gun to my head, I could not tell you what this book was about. If I wasn’t reading it for a bookclub, I would have DNF’d it. Book I: The Story of as my favorite out of all of them. I actually liked learning about Highways life. The rest of the book just went downhill. I was so confused on what was happening and why.”
About Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. A novelist (Faces in the Crowd) and essayist (Sidewalks), her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the New Yorker, Granta, and McSweeney’s. In 2014, Faces in the Crowd was the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award.
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