‘I seem tough, but I’m waiting for the one who can see right through me. I get a little shaky thinking about this possibility,’ Anna Burke says. After receiving a serious health diagnosis, Anna isn’t going to take it lying down. Instead, she sets out in search of something sweet and solid, an undeniable truth she can hold on to as she runs away from her home in the city, landing in a small town in Vermont.
There, Anna meets Noah and Cyrus Wolfe, a father-and-son duo of dynamiters hired to destroy the worst ice dam the town has faced in years. But when the blast goes wrong, neither father nor son can finish the job, and the only person who might be able to save the town is Anna herself.
The Last Sweet Taste is a story of discovering innocence in a difficult world. As Anna searches for truth and comfort, she finds herself among people whose quiet, humble lives offer the sweetness she has been longing for. A resonant story of resilience, unexpected love, and the small triumphs that arrive when everything seems lost, The Last Sweet Taste, as always, is worth the wait.
Genre: Literary Fiction
There, Anna meets Noah and Cyrus Wolfe, a father-and-son duo of dynamiters hired to destroy the worst ice dam the town has faced in years. But when the blast goes wrong, neither father nor son can finish the job, and the only person who might be able to save the town is Anna herself.
The Last Sweet Taste is a story of discovering innocence in a difficult world. As Anna searches for truth and comfort, she finds herself among people whose quiet, humble lives offer the sweetness she has been longing for. A resonant story of resilience, unexpected love, and the small triumphs that arrive when everything seems lost, The Last Sweet Taste, as always, is worth the wait.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Craig Nova is one of our best writers. His career has been a high-wire act he's daringly situated right at eye level. Who couldn't identify with his characters, always moving forward, misstepping, reversing course, only to find that whatever tenuous safe shore there was no longer exists. This novel is sometimes sadly absurd or funny, and also unexpectedly tender. The extremes of the terrain are real and absolute, the people who occupy that space not entirely defeated, still yearning. Nobody sees America the way Craig Nova does, but once we've travelled through his territory, we won't forget it." - Ann Beattie
"A superb novel - lyrical, compelling, shrewdly wise. Craig Nova at the height of his amazing powers." - William Boyd
"No one does doom, or doomed loved stories, better than Craig Nova - the master of endings you see coming, but are no less afraid of." - John Irving
"Craig Nova is one of our best writers and this is his best book, thrilling, heart breaking, and the reason people used to read novels." - Lee Smith
"A superb novel - lyrical, compelling, shrewdly wise. Craig Nova at the height of his amazing powers." - William Boyd
"No one does doom, or doomed loved stories, better than Craig Nova - the master of endings you see coming, but are no less afraid of." - John Irving
"Craig Nova is one of our best writers and this is his best book, thrilling, heart breaking, and the reason people used to read novels." - Lee Smith
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