Faces in the Crowd is a 2011 novel by Mexican author Valeria Luiselli, originally under the title Los ingrávidos (literally, "The Weightless").

[2] The first narrative is set in Mexico City and follows a young mother and writer as her marriage may or may not be beginning to fall apart.

The second narrative is set in New York, and follows the adventures of the same woman when she was a young translator living a Bohemian life who becomes obsessed with the obscure, early 20th-century Mexican poet Gilberto Owen.

The book has received acclaim for its unique reorientation of the invented spaces of language and identity.

[4][5][6] It received the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.