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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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'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
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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 timePicture 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? . . . AstonishingExactly 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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