Roots Stirred

This richly woven, multi-voiced novel transports readers to a small village on São Miguel, the largest of Portugal’s Azores islands. Through the eyes of a young boy growing up in the 1940s, and the stories shared by his beloved great-uncle, Tio Pascoal, the novel paints a vivid portrait of island life—its beauty, its hardships, and its quiet defiance.

As Tio Pascoal recounts his own youth at the start of the ...