In Dolen Perkins Valdez’s new novel “Happy Land,” she tells us a fairy tale, one of kings and queens and princesses. There is a castle. There is good and there is evil, and there is much in ...

One of the most anticipated books of the year, Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, is a transporting multigenerational novel that is inspired by the true story of a kingdom in the mountains of ...

I think I was born to listen.” Her latest novel, “Happy Land,” about a real-life utopian community of emancipated Black people, called for a different approach. Viewed from one angle ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with author Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her novel "Happy Land." The book is inspired by the true story of a secret community of formerly enslaved people in the Appalachians.