{"product_id":"ghost-stories-a-memoir","title":"Ghost Stories: A Memoir: 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 \u003cb\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\/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-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.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53537210630510,"sku":"9781668218945","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_212f95bf-ef27-44c0-bca7-69859f39199d.jpg?v=1774452753","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/ghost-stories-a-memoir","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}