From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

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Locke’s raw and heartfelt memoir will uplift readers suffering from the loss of their own loved ones. In the tradition of “Like Water For Chocolate,” “Scratch” is a recipe book and love story that is told through cooking a meal.

Her parents gladly attended, arriving in full Texan gear while dancing the Harlem Shuffle at the reception. There was no one with whom we could compare ourselves, no one to whom we could turn to for the ins and outs of long-distance, bicultural, bilingual, biracial love. Hearing her story through her own voice made this book more impactful for me and I am glad I listened to it rather than read it. But while the two had a happily ever after for a time, it was marred by the fact that his traditional Sicilian family did not accept his marrying an American—and a Black American at that.Italy is one of my favorite places in the world (and I can’t wait to visit once travel is safe and we are allowed back into the EU…), and this memoir was part love letter to Tembi’s late husband, part love letter to Italy. As was typical, she had dropped by in the afternoon and found me, scrub brush in hand, Billie Holiday mix tape on the boom box. They're also in for a love story that goes beyond romantic love – bigger and more expansive than just romantic love," she said. He was inviting me into a vision for my own future that until that moment, I didn’t even know I wanted.

I’m guessing this was done on purpose since the author’s tale is really about the salve that she found in Sicily.

Its design was a mélange of graffiti complete with random illustrations including a rocket, a slice of pizza, an amoeba, a guitar, a constellation, and the number 8 floating randomly and all topsy-turvy in hues of blue and yellow. All along the way she reflects on her and Saro's romance – an incredible love story that leaps off the pages.