From Scratch

Locke fell in love with a Sicilian chef whose family initially refused to accept their marriage, and years later she returned to his village as a widow with their daughter. The memoir moves between Los Angeles hospitals and a Sicilian kitchen, and food is not decoration here but the way a grieving woman is slowly taken in by a mother-in-law who once rejected her. Precise about the mechanics of grief and unusually warm about what follows it.