Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt SIGNED

Published May 5th 2025 available to pre order now

Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedt's tender memoir of the 43 years she spent with
her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster: from their first encounter
in 1981 New York, to his untimely death in 2024.
Featuring Paul Auster's last ever piece of writing - a series of letters to his and
Siri's baby grandchild, Miles.

In this moving new memoir, celebrated writer Siri Hustvedt recounts the experience of
navigating with her husband, Paul Auster, what she'd dubbed "Cancerland." She walks us
through his diagnosis, the treatments, the peaks of hope and the valleys of suffering, and
the love they continued to share along the way.
It is a patchwork-quilt memoir that stitches together emails sent by Siri to update friends
on Paul's health, letters drafted by Paul for their grandson to one day read, and memories
recounted by Hustvedt with her signature lyricism and poetic prose. The result is an
emotional, full-bodied story of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster's life together and its battling
final chapter, and an examination of the state Siri has found herself in in the time since
that parting.