Product Description
Happy Land
Author: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Format: Paperback
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 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.
‘Exactly the novel we need right here, right now’ — TAYARI JONES
‘Astonishing’ — JODI PICOULT
‘Triumphant’ — ELLE
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