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This book was beautifully written. I didn’t want it to end. I can’t say enough about how much I enjoyed reading and becoming enmeshed in this story. I was not ready for it to end.
I find this book a bit difficult to review, but I think it more has to do with my expectations for it rather than how the book was written. I wanted and expected more about Tembi and Saro's love story, especially from the beginning. Instead it felt as if she was a brat to him in the beginning and then suddenly changed her mind - it did not reflect her in a very favorable light.
But overall, this story was more about how Tembi and their daughter Zoela dealt with the grief of losing Saro to cancer. I cannot imagine what it feels like to lose the love of your life to cancer and then to be a single parent. And perhaps because I have not found that level of love in my life yet, I almost wanted to shake Tembi and just say "at least you had a chance to have that type of love." So I grew frustrated with her story and couldn't connect. But again, this may go back to my own expectations for the story rather than how it was actually written. One thing is for sure, the descriptions of food are absolutely GORGEOUS and I've never craved pasta so much in my life.
But overall, this story was more about how Tembi and their daughter Zoela dealt with the grief of losing Saro to cancer. I cannot imagine what it feels like to lose the love of your life to cancer and then to be a single parent. And perhaps because I have not found that level of love in my life yet, I almost wanted to shake Tembi and just say "at least you had a chance to have that type of love." So I grew frustrated with her story and couldn't connect. But again, this may go back to my own expectations for the story rather than how it was actually written. One thing is for sure, the descriptions of food are absolutely GORGEOUS and I've never craved pasta so much in my life.
Something different for me. Bawled in the second (long) chapter when she described how her husband was dying, and got tired of hearing (on the audio version) / reading “quintessentially Sicilian,” but I loved hearing a bit of what Sicilian life can be like. I enjoyed learning about how the author deals with her grief.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
I listened to Tembi narrate her novel and enjoyed the storytelling, but it was a little too far outside of my general interests.
emotional
medium-paced
Such a beautiful read, the words, the story, even adoption, I loved it!
Beautiful memoir of love between a Black American woman and her Sicilian husband. Beautiful talk about recipes and the healing power of food and the stages of grief. I empathized with her grief especially when she felt jealous of other couples no matter how happy they really were--I get jealous of other families with kids in college and they're all sad, but I'm jealous of them having a child going away and able to come back instead of being dead.