Happy Land
The spellbinding new novel from the bestselling author of Take My Hand
$24.37
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
14 July 2026
Summary
‘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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474622738 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474622739 |
| Author: | Dolen Perkins-Valdez |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Orion Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 14 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 194mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
What a story! Happy Land is 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 – Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of BLACK CAKEPicture 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? As Dolen Perkins-Valdez says in this astonishing, historical-based novel - a family tree isn’t just something you draw on paper. It’s only when you’re rooted in the soil that your family once inhabited that your imagination can brush the sky – Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of BY ANY OTHER NAME
About The Author
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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