Editor’s note: I’m interested in this book because it’s based on the historical reality of a Black kingdom in Appalachia; the book seems to connect people to a beautiful land where they can independently sustain themselves.
“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
Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Published: Apr 08, 2025 by Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780593337721
Price: $39.00
Format: Hardback
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