{"product_id":"the-story-of-my-teeth-9781566894098","title":"The Story of My Teeth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Márquez, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own. This deeply playful novel is about the passion and obsession of collecting, the nature of storytelling, the value of objects, and 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.\"--\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was born in Pachuca, the Beautiful Windy City, with four premature teeth and 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighway is a late-in-life world traveler, 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, \u003ci\u003eTeeth \u003c\/i\u003eis an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eValeria Luiselli \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e. Her novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e is the Winner of the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize in Fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eValeria Luiselli: Valeria Luiselli was born Mexico City and 1983 and grew up in South Africa. A novelist (\u003ci\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e) and essayist (\u003ci\u003eSidewalks\u003c\/i\u003e), her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2014, \u003ci\u003eFaces in the Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e was the recipient of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award. Her forthcoming novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Story of My Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e, will be available from Coffee House Press in fall 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613040414994,"sku":"9781566894098","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_01d390ac-8d43-45eb-b1f5-4bb9e762dd3e.jpg?v=1732384707","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-story-of-my-teeth-9781566894098","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}