Through her work Tembi aims to inspire people to embrace resilience, love, and the power of community. Blinking snow from my eyes, wondering what on earth could have happened, I pedaled my way back across the Arno to my apartment.

From Scratch is for anyone who has dared to reach for big love, fought for what mattered most, and those who needed a powerful reminder that life is.From the shores of California to an island in the Mediterranean, FROM SCRATCH is a rich, sensual reading experience.

Eventually, they reconciled with Saro’s family just as he faced a formidable cancer that would consume all their dreams. Despite my early promises of discipline, in six weeks I had blown through a semester’s worth of spending cash. I like getting lost in the “fake” worlds of fiction where at the end of the book I can tell myself it wasn’t real. It was a car I had seen only in I Vitelloni , a movie I had watched in my Italian Neorealism film class. I wanted to journey to beyond where my eye can see and greet the self who carried me forward to get there.

In this unforgettable memoir, Tembi shows us how powerful—and ultimately uplifting—that journey can be.