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The Tenth Island

Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores

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The Tenth Island

Written by: Diana Marcum
Narrated by: Rebecca Mozo
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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 Azores 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.

©2018 Diana Marcum (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Women Portugal Village

What the critics say

"Mozo's performance breathes life into the real-life people in this audiobook.... Marcum's words and Mozo's performance are a lovely combination, which is sure to help listeners escape to a more tranquil place - at least in their minds." (AudioFile)
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Ah, saudade! After almost 52 years in Canada, I still catch myself referring to my Azorean experiences and feelings that I understand fully the 'tenth island' sentiment. There is something about 'home' that holds you, and this book brought those sentiments back with a vengeance. The narration was very good but for the Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation on many of the Azorean words and phrases - - that detracted from a perfect reading.

Captures an islander's memories.

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I really love this book simply because my family is from the Azores took me back to my roots, realizing how complicated life is today here in Canada and North America and how simple things continue to be there.

it's worth the read

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