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"False Documents" contains ten essays written by Luiselli when she debuted: some passages record her thoughts about self and space while roaming (or riding) between cities and countries; some passages explore the boundaries of reading and writing. The word "fake document" is taken from her experience of getting a permanent residence card in Venice during her trip to Venice and visiting Brodsky's grave in the beginning and end. It also metaphors the complexity and change of the flow of the author's own experience. The detached perspective and graceful writing style of essay writing reflect Luiselli's ambition and honesty as a writer, and it also provides readers with a new way of seeing the world around them.

A couple engaged in recording documentary work and their two children set out from New York on a journey to the southwestern United States. The wife decided to record the voices of the refugee children, while her husband planned to research the history of the Apache Indians. The family is about to fall apart. On their last trip together, they found that their lives became entangled with the fate of the missing children. These children fled their homeland and crossed the U. S.-Mexico border for a better life. They originally expected to be reunited with their families, but they disappeared and died quietly in the desert. The family picked up cameras and voice recorders to record these forgotten sounds and turned them into layers of archives - heart-wrenching narratives, photos, books, notes...

"The Story of My Teeth" tells the story of Gustavo Speedway, a unique auctioneer in the world, and his teeth. A work about "my" collections, their unique names and their rebirth after recycling. I gushed out pearls and gave my collection new value with stories that were both true and false. Until one day, my son took away my cherished Monroe teeth and imprisoned me in an art museum exhibition hall. Then one day I met Fragin and asked him to write my biography. And we started stealing small items from art museums. I learned and sold them now, and used the stories behind those items to teach him about art collection...