Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s latest historical novel, Happy Land, offers a bold interpretation of the real-life Kingdom of the Happy Land.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s latest historical novel, Happy Land, offers a bold interpretation of the real-life Kingdom of the Happy Land.
There is a happy land, far, far away … Come to that happy land, come, come away. “There is a Happy Land,” 1838 hymn by Andrew Young High above the tiny Henderson County town of Tuxedo, on a knoll where every step is cushioned by a thick growth of turkey-foot fern, Ed Bell stops in […]