One Book, One Buncombe Author Event with Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Schedule

Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

AB Tech Ferguson Building | Asheville, NC

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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.
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AB Tech Ferguson Building, Asheville,NC,United States

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