{"product_id":"ghost-stories-siri-hustvedt-9781668218945","title":"Ghost Stories: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eA searing memoir of love and grief centered around the loss of Siri Hustvedt's husband, Paul Auster.\u003c\/b\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-seen-before writing by Auster--letters and notes to Siri and his last unfinished book addressed to his grandson, \u003ci\u003eLetters 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\u003eHustvedt 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 meditates on the things and papers Auster left behind, reflects on the forty-three years they spent together, and on the rituals of mourning and the nature of language, memory, and the self. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart memoir, part philosophical inquiry, \u003ci\u003eGhost Stories \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Siri Hustvedt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1668218941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668218945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d","brand":"Siri Hustvedt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424951124223,"sku":"9781668218945","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2ea4fddd-a008-4602-9831-7fba79b95779.jpg?v=1761535976","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ghost-stories-siri-hustvedt-9781668218945","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}