

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: A conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 22 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us at our South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch when author Dolen Perkins-Valdez visits to discuss her latest novel, "Happy Land." This event is part of the New Voices Series.

Register: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/12920333

The New Voices Series celebrates new and upcoming authors reflecting the breadth of human experience.

The first 150 registrants will receive a complimentary copy of Happy Land. Registrants must be present to receive their book.

Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of "Wench" (2010), "Balm" (2015), and most recently "Take My Hand" (2022) which was named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle, Essence, NBC News, and elsewhere. Amazon named Take My Hand one of the Top 20 Books of 2022. The novel was awarded a 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, and Fiction Award from Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It has been longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.  A three-time nominee for a United States Artists Fellowship, Dolen is widely considered a pre-eminent chronicler of American historical life. She is Associate Professor in the MFA Program at American University in Washington, DC.

Inspired by true events, "Happy Land" is a transporting multi-generational novel about the stories that shape us and the dazzling courage it takes to dream.

Nikki hasn’t seen her grandmother in years, due to a mysterious estrangement inherited from her mother. So when the elder calls out of the blue with an urgent request for Nikki to visit her in the hills of western North Carolina, Nikki hesitates only for a moment. After years of silence in her family, she’s determined to learn the truth while she still can.

But instead of answers about the recent past, Mother Rita tells Nikki an incredible story of a kingdom on this very mountain, and of her great-great-great grandmother, Luella, who would become its queen.

It sounds like the makings of a fairy tale—royalty among a community of freed people. But the more Nikki learns about the Kingdom of the Happy Land, and the lives of those who dwelled in the ruins she discovers in the woods, the more she realizes how much of her identity and her family’s secrets are wrapped up in these hills. Because this land is their legacy, and it will be up to her to protect it before it, like so much else, is stolen away.

? Additional books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry. 

This event is sponsored by the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/south-euclid/a-conversation-with-dolen-perkins-valdez/200027962409715
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 11

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/12920333?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=south+euclid-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: South Euclid
- **state**: OH
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1876 South Green Road, South Euclid, OH 44121
- **lat**: 41.50901
- **long**: -81.52001
- **full address**: 1876 South Green Road, South Euclid, OH 44121, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Cuyahoga County Public Library (https://allevents.in/org/cuyahoga-county-public-library/8339146)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 22 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1876 South Green Road, South Euclid, OH 44121, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Cuyahoga County Public Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, nonprofit
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about A conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez ?
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