A Kirkus Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far)
A Literary Hub Best Translated Novel of the Decade
“[The Story of My Teeth is] proof that Valeria Luiselli is one of the most exciting new writers working today.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Come for the absurdist comedy, stay for the references to great writers and philosophers and see how in on the joke you really are.”
—Vulture
“Playfully brilliant.”
—BuzzFeed
“Highly inventive. . . . A work of immense charm and originality, written in vivid, witty prose.”
—The New Yorker
“Luiselli’s unstintingly imaginative tale perhaps works as a parable for the way works accrue value in the art world.”
—The Guardian
"Playful, attentive and very smart without being for a minute pretentious. It’s Walter Benjamin without tears—sunnier, more casual and more nimble.”
—The New York Times Sunday Book Review
“This giddy, witty, idiosyncratic novel . . . is a jubilant celebration of the act of storytelling.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“A playful, philosophical funhouse of a read that demonstrates that not only isn’t experimental fiction dead, it needn’t be deadly, either.”
—NPR
“Although buoyant, Luiselli’s work never seems flippant, perhaps because of her precise prose style. . . . Linear at first glance, it soon opens out into a world of stories, like a mouth with one tooth from every artist in the world.”
—The Chicago Tribune
“This charmingly slippery slip of a book, packed with fantastical allusions, reminds us that the world’s great stories can be ours for a very reasonable price.”
—The San Francisco Chronicle
“Wonderful, unusual.”
—Paris Review Daily
“In a delicately layered, wryly funny fashion, Luiselli is exploring the actual value of telling made-up stories.”
—HuffPost
“Luiselli's delightfully bizarre novel follows Highway, a world traveler and renowned auctioneer, who collects teeth—specifically, the teeth of influential thinkers, like Plato, Marilyn Monroe and Virginia Woolf.”
—MPR
