{"product_id":"ghost-stories-a-memoir-siri-hustvedt-hardcover","title":"Ghost Stories: A Memoir -- Siri Hustvedt, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA searing memoir of love and grief centered around the loss of Siri Hustvedt's husband, Paul Auster.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\"Genuinely moving...Hustvedt's book is like Didion's [\u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e] in tone...a grainy and resonant book about loneliness, despair, and confusion. It's close to a howl.\" \u003ci\u003e--The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhost Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is an intimate meditation on grief, memory, and enduring love, written after the death of Siri Hustvedt's husband, Paul Auster. The book includes personal, never-before-seen writing by Auster--letters and notes to Siri and his last unfinished book addressed to his grandson, \u003ci\u003e Letters to Miles\u003c\/i\u003e. The memoir is both an elegy and a reckoning, a chronicle of personal loss that also bears witness to the sorrows of recent years--the tragic deaths of Hustvedt's stepson and granddaughter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hustvedt explores how grief unmoors time, how the intimacy of a shared life continues to mark the everyday, and how the body experiences the absence of love as a presence. She reflects on the things and papers Auster left behind, the forty-three years they spent together, the rituals of mourning, and the nature of language, memory, and the self. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Part memoir, part philosophical inquiry, \u003ci\u003eGhost Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is unflinching, tender, and wise. It is a story of a woman haunting her own life, and the ghosts that inhabit us even as we carry on.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Siri Hustvedt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5\/5\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.32\" H x 6.27\" L x 0.84\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781668218945\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66725214060848,"sku":"9781668218945","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9781668218945.jpg?v=1784241302","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/ghost-stories-a-memoir-siri-hustvedt-hardcover","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}