The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores

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From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author comes an exuberant memoir of personal loss and longing, and finding connection at the remote Azorean Islands of the Atlantic Ocean.

Reporter Diana Marcum is in crisis. A long-buried personal sadness is enfolding her—and her career is stalled—when she stumbles upon an ordinary group of immigrants living in rural California. She follows them on their annual return to the remote Azorean Islands within the Atlantic Ocean, where bulls run down village streets, volcanoes are active, and the folks celebrate festas to ease their saudade, a longing so deep that the Portuguese word for it could possibly’t be fully translated.

Years later, California is in a terrible drought, the wildfires seem to never end, and Diana finds herself still dreaming of the ones islands and the chuva—a rain so soft you don’t notice when it begins or ends.

With her troublesome Labrador retriever, Murphy, in tow, Diana returns to the islands of her dreams only to find that there are still things she longs for—and one in all them is also a most unexpected love.

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