

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: One Book, One Buncombe Author Event with Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Our community-wide reading program is back. Join us for One Book, One Buncombe as we read Happy Land by author and historian Dolen Perkins-Valdez, a novel set in Western North Carolina that explores land, memory, resilience, and local history.

Read the book, join a discussion at your local library, or attend the free author event on May 16 at 2 p.m. at Ferguson Auditorium. Copies of the book are available at Buncombe County libraries while supplies last.

Learn more and find ways to participate at buncombenc.gov/library.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/asheville/one-book-one-buncombe-author-event-with-dolen-perkins-valdez/200029800149050
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 46

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029800149050?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=asheville-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Asheville
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: AB Tech Ferguson Building
- **lat**: 35.570307228997
- **long**: -82.555350442566
- **full address**: AB Tech Ferguson Building, Asheville,NC,United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Buncombe County Government (https://allevents.in/org/buncombe-county-government/3453058)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** AB Tech Ferguson Building, Asheville,NC,United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Buncombe County Government
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about One Book, One Buncombe Author Event with Dolen Perkins-Valdez ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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