Dolen Perkins-Valdez
There are some books that you never want to end because they are SO GOOD. Happy Land definitely fits into that category! You all know how much I love time travel and history, well this wonderful book has both! You will be drawn into this story right from the start; you will get to know Nikki, her grandmother, Luella, William, and so many more. Inspired by true events, Happy Land is a transporting multigenerational novel about the stories that shape us and the dazzling courage it takes to dream. "No one writes the historical novel quite like Dolen Perkins-Valdez, and with Happy Land , she's at her brilliant best! Here is the ancestor who cried, laughed, and hoped before any of us were born. Here is the vulnerable earth that tenders its secrets.... Readers will be captivated." Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, New York Times bes...
