GHOST STORIES : A MEMOIR

Ghost Stories : The tender memoir of the forty-three years Siri Hustvedt spent with her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster. From their first encounter in 1980s New York through the highs and lows of love, family and grief.

It is a patchwork-quilt book that stitches together memories from over forty years of love and life together. From journal entries Siri wrote between November 2023 and 3 May 2024, to the day of Paul's funeral. And emails Siri sent to friends during his cancer treatment; notes Paul sent her over the course of their relationship; and three love letters Siri wrote to him in 1981, when he left her for a period of nine or ten days to return to his former life with his first wife and son.

The book also contains Paul Auster's last ever piece of writing - the first thirty-five pages of what he hoped would be a small book of letters to Siri's and his grandson, Miles Auster Hustvedt Ostrander, born on 1 January 2024.

Unflinching, tender and wise, this is the full-bodied story of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster's life together, an exploration of how grief unmoors time and how the intimacy of a shared life continues to mark the everyday.

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