The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli

Reading Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth (Coffee House Press) may provoke a vaguely familiar sensation for frequent readers of Latin American fiction — or, at least, a sense of recognizable unfamiliarity. Though Luiselli’s daring second novel is nothing if not refreshing, more than one reviewer has called the author “reminiscent of (Roberto) Bolaño,” navigating, as Diego Báez wrote for Booklist, “a dynamic, ghostly world between worlds, crisscrossing fact and fiction.”  The comparison is not without...

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