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A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story established against the lush backdrop from the Sicilian countryside, where one girl discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour.

It was like at first view when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on the street in Florence. There is just one issue: Saro’s traditional Sicilian family members about From Damage: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Selecting Home didn’t approve of him marrying a dark American girl, an actress believe it or not. However, the few, heartbroken but undeterred, forges on. They build a happy life in Los Angeles, with fulfilling careers, deep friendships and the like of their lives: a baby gal they adopt at birth. Eventually, they reconcile with Saro’s family members just like he faces a formidable malignancy that will consume almost all their dreams.

From Scrape chronicles three summers Tembi spends in Sicily with her girl, Zoela, as she begins to patch together a life without her husband in his tiny hometown hamlet of farmers. Where once Tembi was estranged from Saro’s family members and his roots, now she finds solace and nourishment—literally and spiritually—at her mom in laws’s desk. In the Sicilian countryside, she discovers the healing gifts of basic fresh meals, the embrace of the close knit community, and timeless traditions and intelligence that light a path forward. All along the way she shows on her and Saro’s incredible love—an indelible like tale that leaps off the pages.

In Sicily, it is stated that every tale begins having a marriage or a loss of life—in Tembi Locke’s case, it really is both. Her story is about loss, but it’s actually about love discovered. Her story is about travel, but it’s actually about selecting a home. It is about meals, but it’s actually about chasing flavor as an act of remembrance. From Nothing is for anyone that has dared to attain for big love, fought for what mattered most, and needed a powerful reminder that existence is…delicious.