The Story of My Teeth

Description

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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Valeria Luiselli,Christina Macsweeney (Translator)
Published: 09/15/2015
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 9781566894098
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 0.60″ H x 8.20″ L x 5.40″ W

Award: 2015 Kirkus Prize Finalist – Fiction
Award: 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist – Fiction
Award: 2015 L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist – Fiction

About the Author
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.