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Someday, Now

A Memoir of Family, Reclaiming Possibility, and One Sicilian Summer

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Someday, Now

By: Tembi Locke
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Tembi Locke, New York Times bestselling author of From Scratch, returns to Sicily for a breathtaking, emotional summer adventure, as she faces the empty nest and an uncharted new chapter in her own life.

Tembi Locke has always been obsessed with family—making them, keeping them, thriving within them. As a child of divorce, a mother through adoption, a widow by cancer and now remarried to form a blended family, she is deeply familiar with change and upheaval. But in the summer of 2023, she felt overwhelmed and uneasy by another major shift: her only child, Zoela, was about to move across the country for college. Tembi needed to be in a place with the power to connect her to the past and prepare her for the future. So, she rented a house by the sea and booked flights to Sicily.

Someday, Now chronicles a sun-drenched summer adventure, as Tembi searches for meaning in places as vast and awe-inspiring as the Tyrrhenian Sea and the mythological home of Persephone and Demeter to those as quiet and personal as her late mother-in-law’s kitchen table. The island is rife with nostalgia and memories for her and Zoela, who grew up visiting her late father’s family in the Sicilian countryside. And when Tembi’s new husband Robert joins them a few days into their trip, she leans into the complicated feelings brought on by this experiment in blending family and reclaiming possibility in middle age.

Combining her own emotional narration with recordings from her time exploring the beautiful island, Tembi invites the listener to journey alongside her in this one-of-a-kind audio experience. Someday, Now is a perfect next listen for fans of From Scratch (now a Netflix series starring Zoe Saldaña), but stands on its own as a captivating and transformative family story and a celebration of love’s ability to reshape us in every season of life.

©2025 Tembi Locke (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio
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Critic Reviews

In Someday, Now, Tembi Locke invites us into the sunlit folds of Sicily in summer, where memory, family, and identity converge. With warmth and grace, she captures the messy, tender art of letting go and finding home again. This audiobook is a balm for the soul—an immersive, beautifully rendered experience that reminds us the greatest gifts come when we meet change with an open heart. – Adrienne Brodeur, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Game and Little Monsters

To listen to this story is to be utterly transported to Sicily: the smell of eucalyptus, the calls of the sparrows, the salty sea air, the hot sun on dust-kissed skin. It is also to be deeply moved by the thoughtful reckonings of a woman on the cusp of transformation. Someday, Now brims with profound meditations about resilience, loss, motherhood, family, community and connection, all against the backdrop of a life-affirming sojourn to a sacred place. As a seeker and a sage, Tembi offers the gift of inspiration and example for how to navigate the changing seasons of our lives and the inevitable shifts that bring change and challenge, renewal and riotous joy. Prepare to be dazzled with wisdom, grace, poignancy and poetry. – Christine Pride, author of All the Men I’ve Loved Again and We Are Not Like Them

A raw and poignant story documenting that bittersweet time in motherhood between your kids taking flight and the looming empty nest. Sicily holds a special place in my heart and hearing Tembi speak about her time there brought back so many of my own memories. Someday, Now resonated with me on every level! –Ashley Elston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Lie Wins

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