{"product_id":"the-last-sweet-taste-9781648211812","title":"The Last Sweet Taste","description":"\"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Sweet Taste\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Sweet Taste\u003c\/i\u003e, as always, is worth the wait. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Nova, a writer of profound attunement to place and psyche, portrays with solemnity and awe a forbidding land and people of reserve and dignity who have little but feel so much. With dynamite and a rogue river signaling life's precariousness and love as sweetness and agony, this is a galvanizing novel of hardscrabble tenderness.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBooklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Craig Nova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcade Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.80w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781648211812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCraig Nova \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of fifteen novels which have been translated into ten languages. He has received an Arts and Letters Award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Harper-Saxton Prize, and multiple fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. His short fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Esquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Men's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Best American Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003eseries, and other publications. As a screenwriter he has worked for Touchstone Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, and other producers. A film was released in 2018 from his novel, \u003ci\u003eWetware\u003c\/i\u003e. Nova is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Craig Nova \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48641371209885,"sku":"9781648211812","price":35.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_2b4fba05-248b-45e6-a7ef-ef8fae8dcedc.jpg?v=1784107891","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-last-sweet-taste-9781648211812","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}