I read “Happy Land” in grief, but also, I have to say, with hope. Tiphanie Yanique is a Townsend Prize nominee for her 2021 novel “Monster in the Middle.” FICTION ...

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 ...

A total of 87 people were killed when an arsonist set fire to the Happy Land Social Club in West Farms. Franco Mena was among the mourners gathered around the Happy Land Monument on Southern ...

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.

As Nikki attends court dates and provides her grandmother with advice, she learns about her ancestors, who established the area as the Kingdom of the Happy Land, a self-sufficient community for ...