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 ...

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 ...

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.

That's the story at the center of a new historical novel titled "Happy Land" by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and she's here with us now to tell us more about it. Welcome. DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ ...