Siri Hustvedt for 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 80s New York to his recent death.ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026 FOR THE _GUARDIAN_ AND _OBSERVER_._Ghost Stories_ is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory, and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster.It is a patchwork-quilt book that stitches together memories from over forty years of love and life together: journal entries Siri wrote between early November 2023, when Paul first became ill, and 3 May 2024, the day of his funeral; e-mails Siri sent to friends during Paul's 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 result is an emotional, 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.'She's a twenty-first-century Virginia Woolf, with many intellectual and creative rooms of her own' _LITERARY REVIEW_'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear' HILARY MANTEL'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' SALMAN RUSHDIESIRI HUSTVEDT is the author of seven novels, five collections of essays, a poetry collection and a memoir.

Her books have been listed for the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize.

She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and has written on art for the _New York Times_ and the _Daily Telegraph_.

Born in Minnesota, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.