Goodreads asked Roshani Chokshi:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Roshani Chokshi My Gollum tooth. So, one of my front teeth (not the first two, but the dude off to the side next to my incisor who I have fondly named Bunnicula) is an illusion. When I was little, I was born with a peg-lateral tooth, which is fancy talk for "RUNT TOOTH." It was just a sort of stumpy, backwards tooth alongside the rest of my normal sized chompers. I had to get a porcelain cap to cover it up which was fine until I was 19, went to an Italian restaurant, bit into a piece of bread and the damn thing *CAME OFF*. Do you know how traumatizing that is?! It was the worst. Not to mention the fact that when I went to parties in college, sometimes a frat house would throw an infernal black-light party and MY TOOTH DIDN'T SHOW UP UNDER THE BLACK LIGHTS. And I would just grin at people and they'd look utterly bewildered and AHHSJFSLDJFSLKDJFKDF.

Why.

Just why.

Did someone conspire to make sure that I was given exceptionally hard bruschetta?

Am I a joke?

I've even come up with mystery titles for my tooth:

THE TOOTH THAT NEVER WAS
THE TOOTH IN PORCELAIN-SHADE-2.1
THE MALTESE TOOTH
THE DENTIST'S HORROR

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