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Happy Land
- Author
- Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Narrator
- Ashley J. Hobbs, Bahni Turpin
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 10 April 2025
- Run Time
- 10 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
'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 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.
Critics Review
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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 CAKE
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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? 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
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Details
- Author
- Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Narrator
- Ashley J. Hobbs, Bahni Turpin
- Duration
- 10 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 April 2025
- ISBN
- 9781399620147
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction, True stories / true accounts of events, Women’s health
Synopsis
'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 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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