Siri Hustvedt’s Heartbreaking Memoir Is a Study of Love and Loss

Authors Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster were together for 43 years. It’s a fact Hustvedt found herself saying repeatedly in the early, disorienting days of grief following Auster’s death from lung cancer in 2024. Ghost Stories is Hustvedt’s heartbreaking chronicle of the first year without her husband. Rich with literary and scholarly references to mourning, as well as letters from the couple’s early courtship, it is also the memoir of an intertwinedhellip;

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