# Happy Land

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- Book: [Happy Land](https://www.bookquiver.com/dolen-perkins-valdez/happy-land) ([Happy Land.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dolen-perkins-valdez/happy-land.md))
- Authors: [Dolen Perkins-Valdez](https://www.bookquiver.com/dolen-perkins-valdez)
- Publisher: phoenix
- ISBN: 978-14-7462-271-4
- Published: 2025-04-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

'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.