Siri Hustvedt

A Plea for Eros

by Siri Hustvedt

From the author of the international bestseller What I Loved, a provocative collection of autobiographical and critical essays about writing and writers.

Whether her subject is growing up in Minnesota, cross-dressing,...

What I Loved

by Siri Hustvedt

A powerful and heartbreaking novel that chronicles the epic story of two families, two sons, and two marriages

What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary...

Living, Thinking, Looking

by Siri Hustvedt

The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting (Mysteries of the Rectangle) as well as an interdisciplinary...

The Summer Without Men

by Siri Hustvedt

"And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't...

The Sorrows of an American

by Siri Hustvedt

The Sorrows of an American is a soaring feat of storytelling about the immigrant experience and the ghosts that haunt families from one generation to another

When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing...

The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

by Siri Hustvedt

In this unique neurological memoir Siri Hustvedt attempts to solve her own mysterious condition

While speaking at a memorial event for her father in 2006, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck...