\u201cA haunting evocation of pain and pleasure, and the power of food.\u201d\u2014Nigella Lawson<\/b><\/p>\n
What if you could have one last meal with someone you\u2019ve loved, someone you\u2019ve lost? Combining the magic of\u00a0<\/b>Under the Whispering Door<\/i><\/b>\u00a0with the high-stakes culinary world of\u00a0<\/b>Sweetbitter<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0<\/b>Aftertaste<\/i><\/b>\u00a0is an epic love story, a dark comedy, and a synesthetic adventure through food and grief.<\/b><\/p>\n
A food story to binge.<\/i><\/p>\n
A ghost story to devour.<\/i><\/p>\n
A love story to savor.<\/i><\/p>\n
Konstantin Duhovny is a haunted man. His father died when he was ten, and ghosts have been hovering around him ever since. Kostya can\u2019t exactly\u00a0see\u00a0<\/i>the ghosts, but he can taste their favorite foods. Flavors of meals he\u2019s never eaten will flood his mouth,\u00a0<\/i>a sign that a spirit is present. Kostya has kept these\u00a0aftertastes<\/i>\u00a0a secret for most of his life, but one night, he decides to act on what he\u2019s tasting. And everything changes.<\/p>\n
Kostya discovers that he can reunite people with their deceased loved ones\u2014at least for the length of time it takes them to eat a dish that he\u2019s prepared. He thinks his life\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Set in the bustling world of New York restaurants and teeming with mouthwatering food writing,\u00a0Aftertaste\u00a0<\/i>is a whirlwind romance, a heart-wrenching look at love and loss, and a ghost story about all the ways we hunger\u2014and how far we\u2019d go to find satisfaction.<\/p>\n