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Tembi Locke on The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende PT. 1

12 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A short interview segment in which two speakers discuss books that changed their lives. Speaker A (Tembi Locke) recounts that her husband Saru died in 2012 after a decade-long rare cancer; she was his caregiver, they had a seven-year-old daughter at the time, and the experience prompted deep soul-searching. The discussion frames the book recommendation within that personal caregiving/loss context.

Questions this video answers

2012

Saru

A decade (ten years)

Seven years old

This time on books that changed my life.
This book fell into my hands at a time when I was doing a lot of soul searching. So in 2012, my husband Saru passed away after a very long illness, a decade of a rare cancer. And I had been his caregiver and I had a seven year old daughter and my whole world shattered. I'm thinking like I am living the I, I am married to like an Italian chef, I'm an actor, I'm living and I like, I have hit the like La Dolce Vita right here.
What did you learn in that 10 years as.
His caregiver.
In watching that happen to somebody?