Description: Happy Land By Dolen Perkins-Valdez BOOK IS BRAND NEW BUT HAS SOME SHIPPING DAMAGE SHOWN IN PICTURES Paperback Genre: African American historical fiction Nikki Berry hasnt seen her grandmother in years, due to a mysterious estrangement inherited from her mother. So when the elder calls out of the blue with an urgent request for Nikki to visit her in the hills of western North Carolina, Nikki hesitates only for a moment. After years of silence in her family, shes determined to learn the truth while she still can. But instead of answers about the recent past, Mother Rita tells Nikki an incredible story of a kingdom on this very mountain, and of her great-great-great grandmother, Luella, who would become its queen. It sounds like the makings of a fairy taleroyalty among a community of freed people. But the more Nikki learns about the Kingdom of the Happy Land, and the lives of those who dwelled in the ruins she discovers in the woods, the more she realizes how much of her identity and her familys secrets are wrapped up in these hills. Because this land is their legacy, and it will be up to her to protect it before it, like so much else, is stolen away. Inspired by true events,Happy Landis a transporting multi-generational novel about the stories that shape us and the dazzling courage it takes to dream. C
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Features: Uncorrected Proof
Edition: First Edition
Book Title: Happy Land
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: Contemporary Women, African American / Historical, Literary
Item Height: 0.9 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 21 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
