Siri Hustvedt
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449 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Siri Hustvedt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And this happened several times.
And the parent would say, oh, no, no, no.
It was good to read it.
Now, there is an interesting...
little bit of business about reading as opposed to living, right?
So those people were actually comforted by a novel that seemed to engage their own horrible experience.
But for them, that wasn't a bad thing.
And many people have told me now, because I've traveled in a number of countries for this book, that the book had some therapeutic meaning for them.
There were people I talked to.
A woman had lost her husband only six months earlier.
Yeah, quite a few widows and widowers have either written to me or told me in person.
And that is satisfying.
That makes me happy.
You know, that you don't leave this book with a feeling that you just don't want to go on.
You know, I think in that way,
Grief is ordinary, right?
The truth is it doesn't feel ordinary when you live it, but it's ordinary.
If you have the capacity for love and you live long enough, you will grieve.
That's the truth.
Yes, well... So fiction and nonfiction, but... I think this is what you've just said for me is I think my ambition in writing
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