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Happy Land: The spellbinding new novel from the bestselling author of Take My Hand

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

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True stories, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, Birth control, contraception, family planning, Women's health

A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a real-life American Kingdom in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Take My Hand

'ASTONISHING' JODI PICOULT
'TRIUMPHANT' ELLE
'EXACTLY THE NOVEL WE NEED RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW' TAYARI JONES

Nikki Berry hasn't seen her estranged grandmother Rita in years - until an unexpected phone call summons her to the hills of North Carolina. There, Nikki learns the astonishing truth of her family's past: her formerly enslaved ancestor Luella was the queen of a now vanished American Kingdom.

The Kingdom of the Happy Land sounds like a fairytale. But beneath its legend, family secrets lie buried deep in the hills . . .

Now, Nikki must protect her family's legacy before - like so much else - it is stolen away.

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Praise for Happy Land: The spellbinding new novel from the bestselling author of Take My Hand

  • An exhilarating tale of perseverance, identity, and love that echoes across generations. This story of formerly enslaved families in the Blue Ridge Mountains who built a community against all odds will stay with me for a long time

  • Picture a time when a kingdom existed inside the confines of the Carolinas - a time when freedpeople were royalty. What if that was your history, instead of the trauma of enslavement and generational poverty? . . . Astonishing

  • Exactly the novel we need right here, right now . . . Perkins-Valdez sings a song to remind us that freedom is worth fighting for

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Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench (2010), Balm (2015), and most recently Take My Hand (2022). She is an Associate Professor at American University and lives in Washington, DC with her family.

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