Tembi’s book recounts three summers - which Attica calls a “three act play of healing” - spent in Sicily, but for budgeting purposes and given the limited number of episodes, these seasons were condensed down into one summer, which provided one of the more challenging parts of the conception of the series. A former fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Feature Filmmaker’s Lab, Locke works as a screenwriter as well, and “From Scratch” marks her first foray as showrunner - across two continents, five cities and three languages. “The Cutting Season” won the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. You’re unique.”Īttica herself has written five books, including her 2019 book “Heaven, My Home” which is the sequel to Edgar Award-winning “Bluebird, Bluebird.” Her third novel “Pleasantville” won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was also long-listed for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction. “All the more reason this book needs to exist. “But if you are a unicorn, I thought you were gonna say,” Attica added in the paired conversation. What are you talking about?’ And that actually made me clearer about my objective and mission to write it because I thought, ‘Well, wait a minute, I’m not some unicorn out here being the only one, we have to put this down.’”Īttica, who has writing credits on “When They See Us” and “Little Fires Everywhere,” was working with Hello Sunshine on another project when she decided to share an early version of her sister’s manuscript with the executives there, leading to the rapid-fire pace of the show’s development after she received a call saying “this needs to be turned into a TV show immediately.” As a new writer you can’t put all of those things in one book.’ And I remember thinking to myself, ‘But I lived them, but they are my truth. “When the book went out on proposal, some of the early feedback I got was ’Well, she can’t do this.
“When I was writing a proposal for my book, and I put all of the themes that were in there, and I’m a first time writer, had never written a book, and literally it’s food, death, love, travel, racism, adoption,” Tembi said.
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