The Story of My Teeth - Valeria Luiselli, Christina MacSweeney (Translator)

Written by Valeria Luiselli, Christina MacSweeney (Translator)
Read by Armando Duran, Thom Rivera
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction.

Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times , NPR, The Guardian, Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others.

The story of “Highway” Sanchez - bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer - and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.

“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, Euripides Lopez Sanchez, was given to saying, is character forming.” Gustavo “Highway” Sanchez 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, The Story of My Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli’s own literary influences.

Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
Release date: 09-15-15