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We meet the second Tuesday of every month to discuss a work of literature.
Are you interested in literary fiction and nonfiction? Are you looking for a book club that meets in downtown DC? Join the longest-running book club hosted by DCPL!
For February's meeting, we will be discussing Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez as part of DC Reads. About the book:
A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a real-life American kingdom in this transporting and riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling author Dolen Perkins-Valdez. In the hills of Appalachia, there once existed a land ruled by a king and a queen. For a time the kingdom thrived . . . and then it disappeared.
Present Day. Nikki gets a call out of the blue with an urgent request for to visit her estranged grandmother in the hills of western North Carolina. There she learns of a shocking story about her great-great-great-grandmother Queen Luella and the very land they are standing on. The more Nikki learns about the Kingdom of the Happy Land and the lives of those who dwelled in the ruins in the woods, the more she understands that sometimes, atonement for the previous generations' mistakes falls squarely on the shoulders of the descendants.
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