The Story of My Teeth

"Quirky and inventive, Valeria Luiselli’s second novel — written in collaboration with Mexican Jumex juice factory workers — is a playful, philosophical fun house of a read that demonstrates that not only isn’t experimental fiction dead but it needn’t be deadly either. Luiselli’s elastic mind comfortably wraps itself around molars, Montaigne, fortune cookies, and theories of identity and storytelling. Her charming narrator is an auctioneer who can amp up the value of anything — including his extracted choppers — by embellishing them with hyperbolic, allegoric stories that become “an elegant surpassing of the truth.”"