It's quite possible you haven't heard of Luiselli; born in Mexico (and raised in the U.S., Costa Rica, South Korea and South Africa), she usually writes in Spanish, and her books are published in translation by the small, independent Coffee House Press. She is, however, breaking through: Her novel "Faces in the Crowd" won the L.A. Times' Art Seidenbaum Prize for First Fiction in April, and she was named one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 for 2014. Today Luiselli lives in New York, making her a greater presence to American readers.

“The Story of My Teeth" is a destabilizing read, a puzzle of a novel that at first seems explicable enough. Each successive chapter reveals new aspects and dimensions to the tale, giving the story new shapes and forms. When the book closes with a description that seems to fit all the parts in place, it's satisfying yet appropriately mutable for a work that's spent so much time playing with truth and fiction.

And it's proof that Valeria Luiselli is one of the most exciting new writers working today.

That's a good thing for readers who will thrill to her writing, who are fond of writers like Geoff Dyer and Ben Lerner, who hybridize the real and the imagined, who smile at a semiotics inscription and for those who like thinking about the intersection of storytelling and lying and art.

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