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From Scratch – Tembi Locke
4****
Subtitle: A memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
While in Florence Italy as an exchange student Tembi met the man of her dreams. Saro was Sicilian, a chef, and more than a decade older than Tembi. She was an African-American college student, with attorney parents from Houston Texas. It was love at first sight, and the deal was sealed with the gift of a bicycle (probably stolen). This was an impossible relationship, but they made it work.
And then he got cancer.
This is a wonderful memoir full of love and tenderness, grief and frustration, joy and a sense of belonging.
Locke narrates the audiobook herself. I cannot imagine anyone doing a better job. Brava!
LINK to my review