Siri Hustvedt

Open-hearted, tender memoirs of the forty-three years Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster shared together: from their first meeting in 1980s New York to his death in 2024.

Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedt’s most personal book: an intimate, deeply moving meditation on grief, loss, memory, and love, written in the aftermath of her husband Paul Auster’s death. The book is both an elegy and a memoir – a chronicle of loss that also bears witness to the succession of tragedies in recent years, including the tragic deaths of Hustvedt’s stepson and granddaughter.

The result is an emotionally rich narrative of the life Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster built together, and an exploration of how grief unmoors time and how the intimacy of a shared life continues to shape the everyday.

Siri Hustvedt (1955) is the author of a poetry collection, three essay collections, a work of nonfiction, and six novels, including the international bestsellers What I Loved, The Blazing World (nominated for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Book Prize), and Memories of the Future.