02374cam a2200325 4500 2541676021 TxAuBib 20250902120000.0 250716s2025||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 9781420523911 hardcover alk. paper 1420523910 hardcover alk. paper TxAuBib Lavelle, Daria. Aftertaste [Large Type Book] / Daria Lavelle. Large print ed. [Farmington Hills, Mich] : Thorndike Press/Gale, 2025. 579 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Thorndike Press large print top shelf "A novel"--Cover. "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 the publisher. 20250902. Fathers and sons Fiction. Cooks Fiction. Grief Fiction. Comfort food Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Ghost stories. Thorndike Press large print top shelf. RV8