Originally published in 2013Finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in fictionBon vivant, world traveller, auctioneer -the story of Highway & his teethare like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico. "Come for the absurdist comedy, stay for the references to great writers & philosophers & see how in on the joke you really are" (Vulture)."A lively, loopy experimental novel rich with musings on language, art, and, yes, teeth... A clever philosophical novel that, as the author puts it, has 'less to do with lying than surpassing the truth' " —Kirkus ReviewsI was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth & my body completely covered in a very fine coat of fuzz. But I'm grateful for that inauspicious start because ugliness, as my other uncle, Eurípides López Sánchez, was given to saying, is character forming. 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, & Virginia Woolf.“Luisellifollows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges & Márquez, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own. This deeply playful novel is about the passion & obsession of collecting, the nature of storytelling, the value of objects, & the complicated bonds of family... Luiselli has become a writer to watch, in part because it’s truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next.”—The New York TimesWritten in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory,The Story Of My Teethis an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City &Valeria Luiselli'sown literary influences.°°°Valeria Luiselliwas born in Mexico City in 1983 & grew up in South Africa. Her work has appeared in publications including theNew Yo