Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

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Book name:	Happy Land (2026)
Category:	Historical Fiction
Author:	Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Pages:	368 pages
ISBN13:	0593337727
ISBN:	0593337727
Language:	English
Publication data:	April 8, 2025, 7 a.m.

'Exactly the novel we need right here, right now' TAYARI JONES

'Astonishing' JODI PICOULT

'Triumphant' ELLE
A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the bestselling and award-winning author of Take My Hand
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 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.

About the author

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

2 books

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of Wench (2010), Balm (2015), and most recently Take My Hand (2022). Take My Hand was awarded the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Literary Work-Fiction and the BCALA Fiction Award. It was named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 in Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle, Essence, NBC News, and elsewhere, and it was an IndieNext and LibraryReads pick for April 2022. The Washington Post called it "a jewel of a book."

Dolen has established herself as… Read more