Kostya Duhovny has lived with ghosts for most of his life, tasting the meals they once loved. When he discovers that he can reunite grieving people with their lost loved ones through the dishes he cooks, he dives headfirst into New York’s competitive culinary scene, determined to fulfill his purpose. But as he chases ambition and meaning, he doesn’t see the catastrophe brewing in the Afterlife—nor the person who must stop him, even as they fall for him. Aftertaste is a lush, heart-wrenching novel about love, loss, desire, and the hunger that drives us.