She learns to heal in the most beautiful way—through the support of three generations of women—and yes, there’s Italian food. I wanted to journey to beyond where my eye can see and greet the self who carried me forward to get there. This is easily one of my fave books of 2021, and I know I’m jumping on late to the game, but better late than never.

Without a moment’s hesitation, I threw my arms around him, American style, and asked, “Do you want to go out? There was just one problem: Saro’s traditional Sicilian family did not approve of him marrying a black American woman, an actress no less. When I told my father during one of our weekly Sunday conversations from Florence that I was seeing a man, the mere mention of it when I was so far away from home, so young, set off his parenting alarm. The author gives you enough information to make you wonder, how could this bi-racial, cross-cultural couple make it? The first thing I did after walking up three flights of a narrow stone staircase to my three-person room was put my duffel down and get into line to use the telephone in the main entrance.Given my track record in Florence, her opinion was worth putting up with evocations of Our Lord and Savior in even the most mundane conversations. To make matters worse, I was talking about staying in Italy even longer than the stay I had already extended. There's an audible easter egg in the series for her so that when she watches it, she's going to hear a message from her dad to her," she said.

Tembi and Saro build their life together, living in LA, where she is an actress, he a chef, and together raising their daughter, Zoela.Tembi Locke is an accomplished actor who has appeared in over sixty television shows and films, including The Magicians , NCIS: LA , Animal Kingdom , and Dumb and Dumber To .

The clatter of cups hitting saucers, spoons clinking against porcelain, plates being stacked, the aroma of coffee and fresh pastries, seduced me. Then I watched as the snow fell further and melted away as it landed on my scuffed boots, the chill of the marble steps beneath me penetrating the soles of my feet. Life goes on and we manage to find meaning and happiness, but that feeling of loss never fully goes away, and that’s okay!

Having visited Sicily many times, there was a real feeling of Sicily it's culture, climate, flora,food and people. She said he had “a vision of an us and greatness so effortlessly that it suddenly seemed as right as butter on bread. And I wanted to be able to know that I could see unspeakable pain and know that it, too, would change me but not undo me. In her literary debut, actor and TEDx speaker Locke offers a warm memoir of romance, wrenching loss, and healing.