<div><p>Praise for Valeria Luiselli:</p><p>&quot;Valeria Luiselli's lovely and eccentric first novel is . . . peppered with arresting imagery.&quot;<i>The New York Times</i></p><p>&quot;Luiselli's extraordinary debut novel <i>Faces in the Crowd </i>signals the arrival of major talent.&quot; Jeremy Ellis, Brazos Bookstore</p><p>With her first novel, Luiselli has established herself as a brilliant explorer of voice, self, and art.&quot;Josh Cook, Porter Square Books</p><p>&quot;Luiselli's <i>Faces in the Crowd </i>is one of the most mesmerizing debut novels in recent memory.&quot; Diesel Bookstore Blog</p><p>Valeria Luiselli's <i>Faces in the&nbsp;Crowd </i>won the 2014 <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Art Seidenbaum First Fiction Award and was a National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 and Indies Next Pick.</p><p><i>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, Eurípides López Sánchez, was given to saying, is character forming.</i></p><p>Highway is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the &quot;notorious infamous&quot; like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, <i>Teeth </i>is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences.</p><p><b>Valeria Luiselli </b>was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her work has been translated into many languages and has appeared in publications including the<i>New York Times</i>, <i>Granta</i>, and <i>McSweeney's</i>.<br></p></div>