Great Escape

Escape to the Azores Islands, 1,000 Miles From Land

Azoreans who left their home for California suffer from a special kind of homesickness, saudade. I came to share their feeling.

Diana Marcum
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12 min readAug 1, 2018

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Illustration by Finn Campbell

ItIt seems impossible now, like trying to remember when I couldn’t read or didn’t have a scar on my shin from that time…

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Diana Marcum
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Diana Marcum is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Tenth Island — Finding Joy, Beauty and Unexpected Love in the Azores.”