num_pages: 192
description: I 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 Eurpides Lpez Snchez was given to saying is character forming.Highway 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 Teeth is an elegant witty exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences.
language: English
title: The Story of My Teeth
publisher: Coffee House Press