Tembi spends a semester abroad in Florence. She meets Saro, a chef, but is not interested in a relationship. For Saro, it’s love at first sight. She discourages him, but he doesn’t give up. Her semester ends and eventually he follows her back to the US. They marry in Florence several years later. His family rejects her because she is not one of them, she is black. Eventually they reconcile. Saro develops and lives with cancer for 10 years. In this time period they adopt a daughter. After his death, she returns every summer with their daughter to Sicily. Over the years she becomes one of them. This memoir is a story of love, loss, reconciliation and belonging.
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