02501cam a2200421 i 4500 2422112710 TxAuBib 20250701120000.0 250207s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2025005012 9781668061596 hardback 1668061597 hardback TxAuBib rda Lavelle, Daria, author. Aftertaste / Daria Lavelle. After taste. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025. 390 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Jacket. "Konstantin Duhovny is a haunted man. His father died when he was ten, and ghosts have been hovering around him ever since. Kostya can't exactly see the ghosts, but he can taste their favorite foods. Flavors of meals he's never eaten will flood his mouth, a sign that a spirit is present. Kostya has kept these aftertastes a secret for most of his life, but one night, he decides to act on what he's tasting. And everything changes. Kostya discovers that he can reunite people with their deceased loved ones--at least for the length of time it takes them to eat a dish that he's prepared. He thinks his life's purpose might be to offer closure to grieving strangers, and sets out to learn all he can by entering a particularly fiery ring of Hell: the New York culinary scene. But as his kitchen skills catch up with his ambitions, Kostya is too blind to see the catastrophe looming in the Afterlife. And the one person who knows Kostya must be stopped also happens to be falling in love with him. Set in the bustling world of New York restaurants and teeming with mouthwatering food writing, Aftertaste is a whirlwind romance, a heart-wrenching look at love and loss, and a ghost story about all the ways we hunger--and how far we'd go to find satisfaction"--Provided by publisher. 20250701. Cooks Fiction. Fathers Death Fiction. Suicide Fiction. Grief Fiction. Love Fiction. Memory Fiction. Ghost stories. Food Fiction. Cooking Fiction. Psychics Fiction. New York (N.Y.) Fiction. Ghost stories. lcgft