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| Title | : | The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores |
| Author | : | Diana Marcum |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 252 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2018 by Little A |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Travel. Autobiography. Memoir |
Diana Marcum
Hardcover | Pages: 252 pages Rating: 3.61 | 9131 Users | 587 Reviews
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From a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer comes an exuberant memoir of personal loss and longing, and finding connection on 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 unusual group of immigrants living in rural California. She follows them on their annual return to the remote Azorean islands in the Atlantic Ocean, where bulls run down village streets, volcanoes are active, and the people celebrate festas to ease their saudade, a longing so deep that the Portuguese word for it can’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 those 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 discover that there are still things she longs for—and one of them may be a most unexpected love.
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| ISBN: | 1503941329 (ISBN13: 9781503941328) |
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This was a very slow memoir. I did enjoy the story, but I wouldnt call it a page turner. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner, so yes, she can write. She was a journalist in California. While doing research for an article about the many people who migrated to California from the Azores, she decided she needs to go there to understand it better. After she comes back to CA, she is always thinking about the Azores and when/how can she get back there. She does go back for an extended period ofThis is a beautiful, moving love story between a woman and a string of islands. It speaks to the part of my heart that longs to just go. It reminds me that I am my only obstacle. This book is a must read for those with this internal calling. Enjoy the journey!
This was a very slow memoir. I did enjoy the story, but I wouldnt call it a page turner. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner, so yes, she can write. She was a journalist in California. While doing research for an article about the many people who migrated to California from the Azores, she decided she needs to go there to understand it better. After she comes back to CA, she is always thinking about the Azores and when/how can she get back there. She does go back for an extended period of
This was neither a travelogue, nor a history book, nor a "lost my shit and found love in a foreign land" book. And I'm good with that.I was initially concerned that I was reading another version of Eat Pray Love (based on the notes on Amazon) but found that the author was less a lost soul and more of a searching one. The Azores sound so beautiful and welcoming, and the format of each chapter almost as a short story was very effective. The Murphy stories in particular were very entertaining. This
Sorry but I did not enjoy this book. I continued reading it because I thought something interesting may happen to Diana on her Azores adventure but it didn't. I found the book rather rambling and difficult to keep up with the different people mentioned. Having said all of that and as a result of reading this book I am planning to visit the Azores next year for a holiday so it cant have been all bad.
Being the child of immigrants is a strange experience to navigate. I always feel equal parts American and Portuguese, but also not really fully one or the other. To my Portuguese family, I will always be the American cousin, albeit one with a decent grasp of Portuguese and a passable accent. To my American friends, I am always a bit of an other, not fully American, but not really all that foreign either. I am not really a minority as people think of the term being of European descent and not
This was a fulfilling and entertaining read. Fitting at this point of transition in my career of staying or going. The desire to travel to the Azores has only been deepened.
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