Ghost Stories: A Memoir by Siri Hustvedt is her most personal work to date, offering a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory, and enduring love following the death of her husband, writer, poet, and filmmaker Paul Auster. This tender memoir chronicles the forty-three years they spent together, from their initial encounter in 1980s New York through the complexities of love, family, and profound loss.

Key Features & Content

• A deeply personal memoir by novelist, poet, and playwright Siri Hustvedt.
• Explores the forty-three years of life and love shared with her husband, Paul Auster.
• Structured as a patchwork-quilt stitching together journal entries (Nov 2023 – May 2024), emails during cancer treatment, notes from Paul, and three early love letters from 1981.
• Includes Paul Auster's final piece of writing: the first thirty-five pages of a planned book of letters to his grandson, Miles Auster Hustvedt Ostrander.
• An unflinching, tender, and wise exploration of how shared intimacy marks the everyday, even after loss.

Specifications

• Author: Siri Hustvedt
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Print Length: 320 pages
• Publication Date: May 5, 2026
• ISBN-13: 978-1399753845
• Dimensions: 136 x 34 x 222mm
• Weight: 424 g

This memoir offers readers a profound meditation on love and loss, rich with accounts of a life lived together, providing consolation for losses suffered and those yet to come.