The Story of My Teeth

"Valeria Luiselli's Story of My Teeth, a comic memoir of an auctioneer -- part Gogol and part Steven Millhauser -- dares to throw in a lesson or two on formal logic into each lot." --Los Angeles Review of Books "One of the most unforgettable images in any book this year is that of Gustavo "Highway" S nchez S nchez, the protagonist of Luiselli's delightfully unclassifiable novel, walking around the streets of Mexico City, smiling at people with the teeth of Marilyn Monroe installed in his mouth . . . surprising and charming . . . It's difficult not to follow wherever it takes you."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "Come for the absurdist comedy, stay for the references to great writers and philosophers and see how in on the joke you really are." --Vulture ..".I found [in the United States] a very open, generous and exhilarating literary community and that community has really modified the way I think about the world, the way I write. But I also found a very strong sense of community and commitment to community." --NPR, interview "The Story of My Teeth is a novel as playful as it is profound." --The Believer Logger "The Story of My Teeth is more than just a novel . . . as all novels that impact our lives are. It is a testament to not only the work that goes into translation, but also to the value of storytelling in a world that sometimes seems to commodify authenticity through our all-access lifestyle." --Three Percent, "Valeria Luiselli and the Transformative Power of Translated Storytelling" "[The Story of My Teeth is] an austere tale that offers some wry observations about art and the art world in Mexico City. Highly recommend." --Los Angeles Times "[Luiselli] has. . .conjured one of the most remarkable novels of 2015, a novel that illuminates the familiar problems of identity and selfhood by re-presenting them in a bracingly defamiliarized light." --Kenyon Review "[The Story of My Teeth] was a joy to read." --Kaaterskill Basin Literary "Forms and genres collide in this often hilarious experimental fiction from one of our most consistent young writers." --Flavorwire, "The 50 Best Independent Press Books from 2015" "Playfully brilliant." --BuzzFeed, "The 24 Best Fiction Books of 2015" "Valeria Luiselli's The Story of My Teeth is a brilliant fable from one of the most talented storytellers writing today." --Largehearted Boy "This boggling and enchanting collaborative novel about a man who believes he has had Marilyn Monroe's literal teeth implanted into his mouth began as a bit of art gallery catalog copy sponsored by a large juice company." --National Post Canada "It's not every writer who is brave enough to share stage in her own work with her translator--and a group of employees at a juice factory--but Valeria Luiselli's got balls as well as serious talent." --Brightest Young Things "Though playful and unruly, her fiction feels surprisingly warm and old-fashioned." --Kirkus, cover feature "A lively, loopy experimental novel rich with musings on language, art, and, yes, teeth. . .the whole book is a kind of extended commentary on how possessions acquire value largely through the stories we tell about them. . . A clever philosophical novel that, as the author puts it, has "less to do with lying than surpassing the truth." --Kirkus starred review "The Story of My Teeth is an elegant, witty romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences." --Shelf Awareness "[The Story of My Teeth] is brilliant, and has a great story; it began as a commissioned work written in collaboration with workers at a Jumex juice factory in Mexcio." --Publishers Weekly "There's big buzz from booksellers around a small press hit, translated from the

Valeria Luiselli: Valeria Luiselli was born Mexico City and 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. Her forthcoming novel, The Story of My Teeth, will be available from Coffee House Press in fall 2015.

Book I: The Story (Beginning, Middle, and End)Book II: The HyperbolicsBook III: The ParabolicsBook IV: The Circulars Book V: The AllegoricsBook VI: The Elliptics Afterward